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

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

✔ Winter Spell
Clean Out Your Closet
18

✔ C - Scorched Eggs | Laura Childs ★★ (09/07/24)
✔ L - The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops | Damien Lewis ★★★ (09/29/24)
✔ E - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (11/10/24)
✔ A - The Castle of Llyr | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ N - Drowning | T.J. Newman ★★ (11/05/24)

✔ O - Death of the Author | Nnedi Okorafor ★★ (02/02/25)
✔ U - The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf | Isa Arsén ★★ (02/21/25)
✔ T - Taran Wanderer | Lloyd Alexander ★★ (10/07/24)

✔ Y - The Fox Wife | Yangsze Choo ★★★★ (03/29/24)
✔ O - Old School | Gordon Korman ★★★★ (02/03/25)
✔ U - Unhallowed Halls | Lili Wilkinson ★★ (03/17/25)
✔ R - Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories | Raymond Carver ★★★ (09/28/24)

✔ C - The Castleton Affair | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (09/26/24)
✔ L - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye | Victoria Laurie ★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ O - Old Soul | Susan Barker ★★★★ (03/11/25)
✔ S - The Goose Girl | Shannon Hale ★★ (09/13/24)
✔ E - Judgment at Santa Monica | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (11/16/24)
✔ T - Tales From the Hood | Michael Buckley ★★ (10/09/24)

*** Completed (04/03/25) ***

Quince
6

✔ Q - A Quiet Life in the Country | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (02/25/24)
✔ U - Unraveller | Frances Hardinge ★★★ (10/24/24)
✔ I - The Whistling Season | Ivan Doig ★★★★★ (07/19/24)
✔ N - The Nursing Home Murder | Ngaio Marsh ★★★ (07/25/24)
✔ C - My Calamity Jane | Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows ★ (07/16/24)
✔ E - Excellent Women | Barbara Pym ★★★★ (05/09/24)

✔ Summer Spell
Bring Out the Mongoose
19

✔ B - Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★ (07/12/24)
✔ R - No Parm No Foul | Linda Reilly ★★ (07/05/24)
✔ I - All My Mother's Lovers | Ilana Masad ★★ (08/04/24)
✔ N - Firestorm | Nevada Barr ★★★ (07/26/24)
✔ G - We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels | Gary Janetti ★★ (08/11/24)

✔ O - Once the Shore | Paul Yoon ★★ (09/17/24)
✔ U - London Rain | Nicola Upson ★★ (01/10/25)
✔ T - Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World | Tom Zoellner ★★★★ (07/10/24)

✔ T - Jingo | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (07/29/24)
✔ H - The Hurtwood Village Murders | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (07/07/24)
✔ E - I Cheerfully Refuse | Leif Enger ★★★★ (05/22/24)

✔ M - Murder in the Mews | Agatha Christie ★★★ (07/23/24)
✔ O - We Solve Murders | Richard Osman ★★ (10/02/24)
✔ N - Read on Arrival | Nora Page ★★★ (09/02/24)
✔ G - “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People | Aubrey Gordon ★★★★ (08/30/24)
✔ O - Once Upon a Crime | Michael Buckley ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ O - Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge | Ovidia Yu ★★★ (10/11/24)
✔ S - We Others: New and Selected Stories | Steven Millhauser ★★ (08/02/24)
✔ E - Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies | Catherine Mack ★★ (05/29/24)

✔July Spell
Angels
6

✔ A - All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy ★★★ (08/05/24)
✔ N - Now You See It | Carol J. Perry ★ (09/03/24)
✔ G - House of Bone and Rain | Gabino Iglesias ★★ (09/01/24)
✔ E - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War | Erik Larson ★★★ (06/03/24)
✔ L - Last Writes | Laura Levine ★★★ (06/12/24)
✔ S - Six Feet Deep Dish | Mindy Quigley ★★★★ (08/02/24)

✔ August Spell
Yo-Yo
4

✔ Y - You Dreamed of Empires | Álvaro Enrigue ★★★★★ (02/06/24)
✔ O - Meddling and Murder | Ovidia Yu ★ (10/13/24)
✔ Y - The Yard | Alex Grecian ★★ (03/27/24)
✔ O - Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell ★★★★ (10/17/24)

✔ TV Episodes - Flintstones
The Sweepstakes Ticket
20

✔ T - The Last Continent | Terry Pratchett ★★★★ (07/31/24)
✔ H - HHhH | Laurent Binet ★★★★★ (08/11/24)
✔ E - The Stranger in the Library | Eva Gates ★★★★ (06/06/24)

✔ S - Comic Sans Murder | Paige Shelton ★★★ (08/12/24)
✔ W - The Golden Hour | Beatriz Williams ★★★ (09/22/24)
✔ E - Everything's Eventual | Stephen King ★★★★ (06/28/24)
✔ E - The Garden of Evening Mists | Tan Twan Eng ★ (06/14/24)
✔ P - Murder Can Frost Your Doughnut | Rose Pressey ★★ (08/04/24)
✔ S - State of Paradise | Laura van den Berg ★★★★ (08/12/24)
✔ T - To Catch a Storm | Mindy Mejia ★★★ (08/03/24)
✔ A - Between a Flock and a Hard Place | Donna Andrews ★★★★★ (08/13/24)
✔ K - The Beekeeper's Apprentice | Laurie R. King ★ (07/21/24)
✔ E - Last Night in Montreal | Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★★ (06/29/24)
✔ S - The Ring of Solomon | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★ (08/14/24)

✔ T - Murder on Marble Row | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (08/29/24)
✔ I - Incidents Around the House | Josh Malerman ★ (08/08/24)
✔ C - Joan | Katherine J. Chen ★★ (07/24/24)
✔ K - Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King ★★★★★ (09/04/24)
✔ E - Thunderstruck | Erik Larson ★★ (07/06/24)
✔ T - Children of Memory | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★ (09/01/24)

✔ September Spell
Spruce
6

✔ S - The Loch Ness Papers | Paige Shelton ★★ (08/26/24)
✔ P - The Dead Cat Tail Assassins | P. Djèlí Clark ★★★★ (08/24/24)
✔ R - Fur Love or Money | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (07/09/24)
✔ U - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi | Boyce Upholt ★★★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ C - The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts | Colson Whitehead ★★ (08/04/24)
✔ E - Vida | Patricia Engel ★★★ (07/14/24)

✔ Fall Spell
Japanese court etiquette
22

✔ J - The Mercy of Gods | James S.A. Corey ★★ (08/20/24)
✔ A - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams ★★★ (08/10/24)
✔ P - The Problem Child | Michael Buckley ★★★ (09/18/24)
✔ A - Anagrams | Lorrie Moore ★★ (08/13/24)
✔ N - No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories | Gabriel García Márquez ★★★ (10/05/24)
✔ E - Fishing for Trouble | Elizabeth Logan ★★★ (08/03/24)
✔ S - A Wee Murder in My Shop | Fran Stewart ★★★ (09/02/24)
✔ E - All We Buried | Elena Taylor ★★★ (08/06/24)

✔ C - Checking Out Crime | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (08/07/24)
✔ O - The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story | Olga Tokarczuk ★★★ (10/28/24)
✔ U - Baudolino | Umberto Eco ★★★ (01/29/25)
✔ R - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Mary Roach ★★★★ (07/11/24)
✔ T - Thyme of Death | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (09/07/24)

✔ E - The Body in the Bookstore | Ellie Alexander ★★★ (08/11/24)
✔ T - A Sorceress Comes to Call | T. Kingfisher ★★★★ (09/08/24)
✔ I - A Sorrowful Sanctuary | Iona Whishaw ★★★ (09/16/24)
✔ Q - The Queen of Poisons | Robert Thorogood ★★ (07/21/24)
✔ U - First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | Loung Ung ★★★ (02/07/25)
✔ E - Pageboy | Elliot Page ★★★ (08/31/24)
✔ T - Tunnel of Bones | Victoria Schwab ★★★ (09/09/24)
✔ T - Mrs. Morris and the Ghost | Traci Wilton ★ (09/25/24)
✔ E - Erasure | Percival Everett ★★★★ (09/05/24)

✔ October Spell
Korea
5

✔ K - Silence in the Library | Katharine Schellman ★★★ (09/26/24)
✔ O - One of the Girls | Lucy Clarke ★★ (01/03/25)
✔ R - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold ★★★★ (07/14/24)
✔ E - There Are Rivers in the Sky | Elif Shafak ★★★★ (09/15/24)
✔ A - The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast | Andrew Blum ★★ (08/14/24)

✔ November Spell
Sleep
5

✔ S - Bridge of Souls | Victoria Schwab ★★★★ (09/09/24)
✔ L - The Last Dragonslayer | Jasper Fforde ★★★ (08/23/24)
✔ E - The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry | Ransom Riggs ★★ (09/25/24)
✔ E - Egg Drop Dead | Laura Childs ★★ (09/30/24)
✔ P - The Purity of Vengeance | Jussi Adler-Olsen ★★★★ (09/24/24)

✔ Song Track - Hounds of Love
And Dream of Sheep
15

✔ A - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon ★★ (08/28/24)
✔ N - No Virgin Island | C. Michele Dorsey ★★★ (10/13/24)
✔ D - Death at Morning House | Maureen Johnson ★★★★ (09/08/24)

✔ D - Death at the Salon | Louise R. Innes ★★ (10/19/24)
✔ R - The Girl from the Well | Rin Chupeco ★★★ (09/10/24)
✔ E - The Everafter War | Michael Buckley ★★★ (10/12/24)
✔ A - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust | Alan Bradley ★★★★★ (09/14/24)
✔ M - Sugar and Spite | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (09/30/24)

✔ O - The Owl Killers | Karen Maitland ★★★ (01/06/25)
✔ F - Flora's Dare | Ysabeau S. Wilce ★★★ (07/18/24)

✔ S - The Spoiled Heart | Sunjeev Sahota ★★ (09/13/24)
✔ H - A Witch Before Dying | Heather Blake ★★★ (08/31/24)
✔ E - Murder Cuts the Mustard | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (10/12/24)
✔ E - The Examiner | Janice Hallett ★★★★ (10/28/24)
✔ P - Berry the Hatchet | Peg Cochran ★★★ (10/10/24)

✔ December Spell
Salt
4

✔ S - Grave Importance | Vivian Shaw ★★ (09/27/24)
✔ A - Silence of the Grave | Arnaldur Indriðason ★★ (09/11/24)
✔ L - Guide Me Home | Attica Locke ★★★★ (09/29/24)
✔ T - The Tale of Hill Top Farm | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (10/03/24)

Spelling

✔ January Spell
Chili
5

✔ C - X-Men Classic: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 | Chris Claremont ★★ (04/17/24)
✔ H - The Kamogawa Food Detectives | Hisashi Kashiwai ★★ (05/22/24)
✔ I - Murder in the Crypt | Irina Shapiro ★★★ (02/19/24)
✔ L - Fight No More: Stories | Lydia Millet ★★ (02/10/24)
✔ I - The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles | Malka Ann Older ★★★★ (03/11/24)

✔ February Spell
Dancers
7

✔ D - Double Cross | Beth McMullen ★★★★ (05/17/24)
✔ A - The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony | Annabelle Tometich ★★★★★ (05/10/24)
✔ N - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World | Naomi Klein ★★★★★ (02/09/24)
✔ C - Curds of Prey | Korina Moss ★★★★ (06/01/24)
✔ E - Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (02/12/24)
✔ R - The Tainted Cup | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★★ (02/24/24)
✔ S - Last Rituals | Yrsa Sigurdardottir ★★ (04/23/24)

✔ TV Episodes - Game of Thrones
Lord Snow
8

✔ L - The Familiar | Leigh Bardugo ★★ (05/12/24)
✔ O - Poor Deer | Claire Oshetsky ★★★ (02/05/24)
✔ R - Delphiniums and Deception | Ruby Loren ★★★ (02/27/24)
✔ D - The Diva Goes Overboard | Krista Davis ★★★★ (05/31/24)

✔ S - Ptolemy's Gate | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★★ (05/19/24)
✔ N - The Bedlam Stacks | Natasha Pulley ★★ (03/24/24)
✔ O - Off Kilter | Hannah Reed ★★ (02/27/24)
✔ W - Winter Counts | David Heska Wanbli Weiden ★★ (07/11/24)

The Kingsroad
12

✔ T - Murder on Mulberry Bend | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (03/25/24)
✔ H - The Vegetarian | Han Kang ★★★ (06/16/24)
✔ E - Murder Flies the Coop | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (02/24/24)

✔ K - You Like It Darker | Stephen King ★★★ (07/03/24)
✔ I - Instruments of Darkness | Imogen Robertson ★★ (04/05/24)
✔ N - The Mystery Guest | Nita Prose ★★ (04/02/24)
✔ G - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal | Mary Roach ★★★ (06/17/24)
✔ S - Sour Heart | Jenny Zhang ★ (06/16/24)
✔ R - The American Daughters | Maurice Carlos Ruffin ★★★★ (04/06/24)
✔ O - Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out | Gracie Gold ★★★ (03/08/24)
✔ A - What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds | Jennifer Ackerman ★★★★ (05/20/24)
✔ D - The Dark Is Rising | Susan Cooper ★★★★ (06/05/24)

✔ March Spell
Gijon
5

✔ G - Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (07/22/24)
✔ I - Indian Burial Ground | Nick Medina ★★ (05/13/24)
✔ J - 320 pages. X-Men: First Class - Mutant Mayhem | Jeff Parker ★★★ (04/12/24) + X-Men: First Class - The Wonder Years | Jeff Parker ★★★ (04/12/24)
✔ O - Wandering Stars | Tommy Orange ★★★★ (03/30/24)
✔ N - 504 pages. Eternals | Neil Gaiman ★★★ (03/18/24) + Marvel 1602 | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (04/11/24)

✔ April Spell
Toxic
5

✔ T - Night of the Living Rez | Morgan Talty ★★★★ (05/14/24)
✔ O - The Morningside | Téa Obreht ★★★★★ (04/10/24)
✔ X - 328 pages. X-Men: Season One | Dennis Hopeless ★★★ (04/11/24) + X-Men: First Class - Tomorrow's Brightest | Jeff Parker ★★★ (04/11/24)
✔ I - In the Distance | Hernan Diaz ★★★★ (05/17/24)
✔ C - Clouds in My Coffee | Julie Mulhern ★ (06/02/24)

✔ May Spell
Bridge
6

✔ B - The Book of Goose | Yiyun Li ★ (07/04/24)
✔ R - Moon of the Crusted Snow | Waubgeshig Rice ★★ (05/12/24)
✔ I - Phantom Orbit | David Ignatius ★★ (06/05/24)
✔ D - A Mourning Wedding | Carola Dunn ★★★★ (06/09/24)
✔ G - Gallatin Canyon | Thomas McGuane ★★★ (07/22/24)
✔ E - Eggs in a Casket | Laura Childs ★★ (03/11/24)

✔ Spring Spell
The Torture Museum
16

✔ T - Four Leaf Felony | Tonya Kappes ★ (05/18/24)
✔ H - The Library of the Unwritten | A.J. Hackwith ★★★★ (06/11/24)
✔ E - Eternals by Jack Kirby: The Complete Collection | Jack Kirby ★★★ (03/17/24)

✔ T - These Fleeting Shadows | Kate Alice Marshall ★★★★ (05/19/24)
✔ O - Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials | Ovidia Yu ★★★★ (05/18/24)
✔ R - Death in the English Countryside | Sara Rosett ★★★ (05/20/24)
✔ T - Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World | Theresa MacPhail ★★★★ (06/09/24)
✔ U - Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley | Brent Underwood ★★★★ (04/21/24)
✔ R - Sudden Death | David Rosenfelt ★★★ (05/23/24)
✔ E - The March | E.L. Doctorow ★★★★ (04/09/24)

✔ M - Prince of Thorns | Mark Lawrence ★★★ (06/03/24)
✔ U - The Death of Lucy Kyte | Nicola Upson ★★★ (06/12/24)
✔ S - The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth | Zoë Schlanger ★★★★ (06/18/24)
✔ E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 1 | Chris Claremont ★★★★ (04/14/24)
✔ U - Urchin of the Riding Stars | M.I. McAllister ★★★★ (07/03/24)
✔ M - The Center of Everything | Laura Moriarty ★★★ (06/04/24)

✔ Most Spoken Languages Spell
Kannada - 43.6
7

✔ K - Annie John | Jamaica Kincaid ★★ (07/06/24)
✔ A - The Warm Hands of Ghosts | Katherine Arden ★★★ (05/27/24)
✔ N - Menewood | Nicola Griffith ★★ (05/08/24)
✔ N - Nuclear War: A Scenario | Annie Jacobsen ★★★★★ (05/10/24)
✔ A - Firekeeper’s Daughter | Angeline Boulley ★ (06/10/24)
✔ D - Death of a Kitchen Diva | Lee Hollis ★ (05/14/24) || Avg. Rating – 3.67
✔ A - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll ★★ (06/14/24)

✔ Song Track - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Good Morning Good Morning
22

✔ G - Count Zero | William Gibson ★★★ (07/26/24)
✔ O - Our Last Echoes | Kate Alice Marshall ★★★ (05/29/24)
✔ O - Of Spice and Men | Sarah Fox ★★ (06/16/24)
✔ D - Fortune Hunter | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (07/02/24)

✔ M - Age of Myth | Michael J. Sullivan ★★★★ (06/30/24)
✔ O - The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma ★★ (07/01/24)
✔ R - Rules for Vanishing | Kate Alice Marshall ★★★★ (05/25/24)
✔ N - New Mutants Epic Collection, Vol. 1: Renewal | Chris Claremont ★★ (05/14/24)
✔ I - Islands | Marta Randall ★★ (06/07/24)
✔ N - Julia | Sandra Newman ★★ (05/17/24)
✔ G - The God of the Woods | Liz Moore ★★★★ (08/01/24)

✔ G - Waterland | Graham Swift ★★ (08/01/24)
✔ O - Out of Circulation | Miranda James ★★ (07/01/24)
✔ O - Other Minds | Peter Godfrey-Smith ★★★ (08/03/24)
✔ D - Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien ★★★★ (08/08/24)

✔ M - Dinosaurs | Lydia Millet ★★★ (07/09/24)
✔ O - Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card ★ (08/22/24)
✔ R - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach ★★★★ (06/30/24)
✔ N - The Narrow | Kate Alice Marshall ★★ (05/28/24)
✔ I - Ill Wind | Nevada Barr ★★★ (06/12/24)
✔ N - The Last Sword Maker | Brian Nelson ★★★ (06/13/24)
✔ G - All Hallows | Christopher Golden ★ (08/06/24)

✔ June Spell
Piano
5

✔ P - 320 pages. X-Men: First Class - Band of Brothers | Jeff Parker ★★★ (04/12/24) + X-Men: First Class Finals | Jeff Parker ★★ (04/13/24)
✔ I - In the Market for Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/10/24)
✔ A - Assassins Anonymous | Rob Hart ★★★ (07/08/24)
✔ N - Sparks Like Stars | Nadia Hashimi ★★ (07/04/24)
✔ O - Our Kind of Game | Johanna Copeland ★★ (08/26/24)

✔ Flowers Spell
Sedum
5

✔ S - The Last Murder at the End of the World | Stuart Turton ★★★ (06/29/24)
✔ E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 2 | Chris Claremont ★★★★ (04/19/24)
✔ D - Dark Matter | Blake Crouch ★ (09/03/24)
✔ U - Under the Surface | Diana Urban ★★ (10/01/24)
✔ M - The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★ (07/13/24)

Tea Rose
7

✔ T - Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow ★★ (07/08/24)
✔ E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 3 | Chris Claremont ★★★ (04/24/24)
✔ A - All My Puny Sorrows | Miriam Toews ★★ (07/19/24)

✔ R - Work Like Any Other | Virginia Reeves ★ (07/05/24)
✔ O - Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life | Laura James ★★ (09/17/24)
✔ S - The Shining | Stephen King ★★★ (07/20/24)
✔ E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 4 | Chris Claremont ★★★ (05/09/24)

✔ 110. Text Acronyms: Read a book with a word in the title that is also a letter name (like You/U or Be/B).
See Something | Carol J. Perry ★★ (03/24/24)

✔ 111. Clean Out That Fridge!
Choose one task NOW from five of the nine sections (dairy, fruit, beverages, etc.)
- Dairy: Eggs. Read a book with something broken on the cover (post the cover).
Thread Herrings | Lea Wait ★★ (07/09/24)


- Vegetable Crisper: Tomatoes. Read a book with a good-looking female character in it (tell us who).
Hurricane Force | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (02/13/24)
Fortune.

- Fruit: Apples. Read a book with a character who is some kind of medical doctor (tell us who).
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine | Uché Blackstock ★★★★★ (02/25/24)
Uche.

- Condiments: Worcestershire. Read a book set in England.
Whose Body? | Dorothy L. Sayers ★★★ (02/02/24)

- Beverages: Fruit Drinks. Read a book with children in it (tell us whose children they are).
Let Me Die in His Footsteps | Lori Roy ★ (02/04/24)
The Holleran kids and Baines kids.

✔ 116. Winter Scavenger: Read a book with FIRE in the title.
Prince of Fire | Daniel Silva ★★★ (04/01/24)

✔ 57. 2023 Treasure Hunt #2
Choose TWO words now, follow the challenge instructions
- dinner. “She’ll be over here for Sunday dinner anyway.” Page 8.
Murder in Chelsea | Victoria Thompson ★★ (10/23/24)
- leaf. “Most bore some variation of tea leaf.” Page 3.
The Archive of the Forgotten | A.J. Hackwith ★★★★ (11/14/24)

✔ 59. 2023-24 Shrink That TBR
Choose one task NOW that requires reading at least two books (excluding #15 and #18)
Set your Goodreads TBR list to show 100 books per page. Sort by publication date, newest to oldest. Read two books from the first page AND one book from the last page of that list (or last two pages, if there are less than 30 books on the last page). Tell us when they were published.
- Pub. Jan 16, 2024. The Woman on the Ledge | Ruth Mancini ★★ (02/12/24)
- Pub. Sep 14, 2023. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels | Janice Hallett ★★★★ (02/16/24)
- Pub. 1891. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★ (05/15/24)

✔ 62. 2023-24 Sub-Genre Challenge
Choose one of the posted broad genres NOW, then use random.org to choose one of the 24 tasks to complete within that genre
- Speculative Fiction. Read a book with at least 10,000 ratings (tell us how many).
Babel | R.F. Kuang ★★★ (05/02/24)
227,302 ratings.

✔ 63. Summer Scavenger: Read a book with flames visible on the cover (post the cover).
X-Men Classic: The Complete Collection, Vol. 2 | Chris Claremont ★★ (04/18/24)


✔ 64. July Scavenger: Read a book with a day of the week in its title.
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home | Harry Kemelman ★★★ (02/28/25)

✔ 65. Peanut Butter: Read a book published in January (any year, tell us the date).
Crimes and Covers | Amanda Flower ★★★★ (10/21/24)
Jan 11, 2022.

✔ 66. About Time
Choose one task from each section
- Time Keeping Devices. Read a book set in the middle east (tell us where).
In the Time of Love: A Modern Arabic Novel | Naguib Mahfouz ★★ (07/18/24)
Egypt.
- Famous Clocks. Read a book with a musical instrument shown on the cover (post the cover).
Lyrics Alley | Leila Aboulela ★★ (05/30/24)


✔ 68. Characters of Mel Blanc
Choose one task from level 1 AND one task from level 2 NOW
- Level 1. Read a book with a cat on the cover (post the cover).
Gone with the Whisker | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (04/15/24)

- Level 2. Read a book with a page count that is evenly divisible by 10 (i.e. a page count that ends in a zero). Post the page count.
Murder at the Fortune Teller's Table | Janet Finsilver ★★★ (10/18/24)
190 pages.

✔ 70. 23-24 Reading Roulette
Choose one Beginner's Luck task NOW (any task designated BL/HR)
- Read the FIRST book on your shelf by an author whose first or last name contains an X.
The Black Cauldron | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (05/22/24)

✔ 71. August Scavenger: Read a book with a multi-story building on the cover (post the cover, even a two-story house is fine)
- How to Solve Your Own Murder | Kristen Perrin ★★★★ (04/04/24)


✔ 72. Olympics #46 - Basketball: Read a book set in Japan.
- Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Vol. 1 | Stan Sakai ★★★★★ (03/20/24)

✔ 73. My Favorite Things: Read a book with a door on the cover.
- Murder in the Corn Maze | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (04/09/24)


✔ 74. Hoard No More!
Choose one month August-November NOW; read two books that fit the theme
November: A book with a color name in the title (plurals, e.g. Blues, and words like Golden accepted)
- Greenwitch | Susan Cooper ★★★★ (08/02/24)
- Biscuits and Slashed Browns | Maddie Day ★★★ (09/13/24)

✔ 76. A Trip Around the World
Choose one city NOW; complete all five tasks
Oslo, Norway
- Read a book whose title begins with s letter in NORWAY
The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder | C.L. Miller ★ (03/01/24)

- Read a book by an author whose first OR last initial can be found in OSLO
Murder at the Boat Club | Lee Strauss ★★★★ (03/14/24)

- Read a book whose total page count includes at least TWO of these numbers: 3-4-6-0-0-0
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club | Helen Simonson ★★★ (05/31/24)
432 pages.

- Read a book set in a location beginning with a letter in KONTIKI
Murder by the Seashore | Samara Yew ★★ (05/17/24)
Oceanside.

- Read a book whose main character’s FIRST initial can be found in AKERSHUS.
Halting State | Charles Stross ★★★ (10/05/24)
Sue & Elaine.

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | Salman Rushdie ★★★★ (04/30/24)
Salman.

✔ 81. September Scavenger: Read a book whose title begins with a letter in IVORY; all words count.
Right Ho, Jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse ★★★★★ (02/11/24)

✔ 82. Olympics #47 - Martial arts: Read a book with a one-word title (all words count).
Mercury | Amy Jo Burns ★★ (02/02/24)

✔ 83. Graham Crackers: Read a book with a prominent character who is elderly.
Long Island | Colm Tóibín ★ (06/01/24)
Eilis' mom, who is 93.

✔ 84. Say What?, Take 2: Read a book with the word NIGHT in its title; compound words accepted.
What Feasts at Night | T. Kingfisher ★★ (03/09/24)

✔ 85. Stock Your Aquarium!
Choose one task for Freshwater AND one task for Saltwater NOW; read TWO books to fit each
Freshwater. Read books whose authors' first names have three different vowels in them.
- Lost Books and Old Bones | Paige Shelton ★★★ (02/10/24)
- Death Over Easy | Maddie Day ★★ (10/08/24)

Saltwater. Read books you think have a striking cover. Post the covers.
- How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite | Chris Balakrishnan & Matt Wasowski ★★★ (03/10/24)
- The Body in the Garden | Katharine Schellman ★★★ (03/15/24)



✔ 89. Fall Scavenger: Read a book with the title printed above the author's name.
Murders and Metaphors | Amanda Flower ★★ (02/18/24)


✔ 90. October Scavenger: Read a book with ghosts in it.
- Anita de Monte Laughs Last | Xóchitl González ★★ (05/09/24)

✔ 91. 2023 Treasure Hunt #3
Choose two words NOW, follow the challenge instructions
- galaxy. “This planet will become the jewel of the galaxy for scientists.” Page 21.
- Children of Ruin | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★★ (06/15/24)
- release. “Would she be as lithe, as skilled and fast at her karate, after her release from the hospital?” Page 279.
Black Diamond | Martin Walker ★★★ (10/23/24)

✔ 93. Board Game Fun: Read a book whose title contains at least three of the consonants in QWIRKLE.
Table for Two | Amor Towles ★★ (04/26/24)
tabLe foR tWo.

✔ 94. 2023 Flower of the Month
Choose one month NOW, read two books whose covers are the appropriate color/s
November: Chrysanthemum
(Orange/White)
- The Memory Theater | Karin Tidbeck ★★★★ (02/17/24)
- Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection | Charles Duhigg ★★★ (02/26/24)



✔ 96. 2023 Connections
Choose one month NOW and make one connection (read a total of 2 books)
October
- Matching Thomas. Murder Book | Thomas Perry ★★ (04/17/24)
- Matching Murder. The Murder of Mr. Ma | John Shen Yen Nee & S J Rozan ★★ (04/20/24)

✔ 98. Jedi Orchestra
Choose one task from three of the seven sections (woodwinds, brass, keyboards, timpani, percussion, strings, non-orchestral instruments) NOW, read one book to fit each task, reading as many books as the task requires
- Brass: Tuba. Read a new book, although we'll make it more recent than the 19th century. For this task, any book released within 6 months of when you read it counts. Tell us the date first published.
Mission Manhattan | James Ponti ★★★★ (02/26/24)
Feb 06, 2024.

- Percussion: Floor Tom, Hanging Tom. Book with a sitting cat on the cover. Post the cover.
If Cats Disappeared from the World | Genki Kawamura ★★ (05/11/24)


- Book with a cat in motion on the cover. Post the cover.
'Til Death | Carol J. Perry ★★ (05/24/24)


- Non Orchestral Instruments: Kazoo. Listen to an audiobook.
Half Broke Horses | Jeannette Walls ★ (05/31/24)
Read by the author.

✔ 102. November Scavenger: Read a book with a major character who is an author; tell us who.
- Natural History | Andrea Barrett ★★★ (05/15/24)
Daphne.

✔ 103. Jell-O: Read a book with a sheet of some kind on the cover (bed, paper, foil, sheetrock, etc., post the cover).
Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money | Rebecca Curtis ★★ (07/07/24)

Bedsheet.

✔ 104. Olympics #48 - Cycling: Read a book in which multiple murders/abductions occur; using spoiler tags, briefly explain.
Now You See Me | Sharon J. Bolton ★★ (05/18/24)
A Jack the Ripper copycat is picking off women.

✔ 105. December Scavenger: Read a book with something soft on the cover (post the cover)
Dearly Depotted | Kate Collins ★★★ (03/12/24)

Flowers & Cake.

✔ 106. 2023-24 Mine Your TBR Mountain
Choose one month NOW; read THREE books originally published that month that were on your to-read list when this challenge began; tell us when they were published *and* when you added them.
December
- Added Jan 10, 2017; Published Dec 11, 2007. The Venetian Betrayal | Steve Berry ★★ (05/25/24)
- Added Feb 01, 2023; Published Dec 05, 2023. Lost Hours | Paige Shelton ★★★★ (07/15/24)
- Added Feb 02, 2023; Published Dec 01, 2007. Magic and Other Misdemeanors | Michael Buckley ★★★★ (10/07/24)

✔ 109. Winter Celebrations: Read a book with the word DEAD, intact and standing alone, in the title.
Dead West | Matt Goldman ★★★ (02/03/24)

I'm finished.

Looking Back on 2023

Duration: Feb 01, 2024 - ?
Completed: 350/350

✔ 1. January Scavenger: Read a book set in Texas (bonus points for San Antonio)
- A Wedding to Die For | Leann Sweeney ★★ (02/07/24)
Houston & Galveston.

✔ 2. Wordle Strategy: Read a book with a title that has a word in it with the letters "ED" appearing consecutively
- Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities | Amy Stewart ★★★ (07/14/24)

✔ 3. Olympics #40 - Curling: Read a book with a snow/ice covered landscape on the cover (post the cover)
- Murder at Everham Hall | Benedict Brown ★★★ (04/07/24)


✔ 4. Funny Street Signs: Read a book with an animal on the cover (post the cover)
- The Dog Across the Lake | Krista Davis ★★ (02/03/24)


✔ 5. Randomizer: Generate five random numbers NOW; read the books that correspond to those numbers on your to-read list
- #769: Reputations | Juan Gabriel Vásquez ★★ (07/15/24)
- #382: Un Lun Dun | China Miéville ★★★★★ (02/14/24)
- #1580: There's a New Witch in Town | Carolyn Ridder Aspenson ★★ (11/14/24)
- #2365: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter | Brandon Sanderson ★★★★ (02/29/24)
- #516: Come Hell or Highball | Maia Chance ★ (04/03/25)

✔ 10. Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Choose one task from each section NOW
- A. Getting Motivated. Read a short book, 150-200 pages (tell us how many pages).
Murder at the Mushroom Festival | Janet Finsilver ★★★ (10/22/24)
178 pages.

- B. Warm Up. Read a book with a plural word in the title.
The Bad Ones | Melissa Albert ★★★ (05/06/24)

- C. Endurance. Read a book with a body of water (big enough to swim in) on the cover (show us the cover).
Murder at the Lakeside Library | Holly Danvers ★★ (03/22/24)


- D. Flexibility. Read a book whose author's first AND last initial is found in STRETCH.
Grief Is for People | Sloane Crosley ★★★★★ (04/06/24)

- E. Balance. Read a book with all words in the title having 4 letters or less.
The Deep Sky | Yume Kitasei ★ (05/19/24)

- F. Strength. Read a book in which a character's FIRST name begins with a letter in LUNGE (tell us who).
Live and Let Grind | Tara Lush ★★ (02/04/24)
Lana.

- G. Cool Down. Read a book with a "0" at the END of the original publication year (such as 1990, 2010, 2020, etc.)
Death in Delft | Graham Brack ★★★ (02/16/24)
Pub. Apr 2020.

- H. Tips. Read a book whose title is in red (show us the cover).
Shoes To Die For | Laura Levine ★★★★ (10/20/24)


- I. Mental Health Benefits from Exercise. Read a book with a GR rating of 4.0 or higher (tell us the rating).
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters | Brian Klaas ★★★ (04/21/24)
4.18

✔ 19. February Scavenger: Read book #4 from a series; tell us the series.
- Started Early, Took My Dog | Kate Atkinson ★★ (04/03/24)
Jackson Brodie #4.

✔ 20. Olympics #41 - Wrestling: Read a book with at least two of these numbers in its total page count: 2, 8, 0, 0; tell us how many pages.
- Power Play | Beth McMullen ★★★★ (05/03/24)
289 pages.

✔ 21. Black History: Read a book with a relationship word (like daughter, uncle etc.) in the title.
- Murder on Sisters' Row | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/20/24)

✔ 22. Treasure Hunt #1: Choose two words NOW, follow the challenge instructions
- culture. “It was a question of human culture, not anatomy”. Page 137.
Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color | Kai Kupferschmidt ★★★★★ (10/19/24)
- rare. “Sarah Brandt was enjoying a rare day at home.” Page 25.
Murder on Fifth Avenue | Victoria Thompson ★★ (10/22/24)

✔ 24. 2023 Remembering Them: Read a book set in Alaska
- The Gathering | C.J. Tudor ★★★ (05/14/24)

✔ 25. 23x23 Challenge: Choose one category NOW that you did not use in this year's challenge; read four books to fit that category
Countdown: Science Fiction
- The Apollo Murders | Chris Hadfield ★★★ (03/13/24)
- Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★ (03/28/24)
- Alien Clay | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★★ (10/11/24)
- The Ghost Brigades | John Scalzi ★★★ (11/10/24)

✔ 29. March Scavenger: Read a book featuring someone from British Royalty (It doesn't have to be the current Royal Family but must be a real person, not a fictional character, although the book itself can be fiction. Tell us who.)
- A Royal Pain | Rhys Bowen ★★★ (02/09/24)
Prince Edward (Wallis' husband), Prince George VI, their parents.

✔ 30. Olympics #42 - Cross Country Skiing: Read a book with all title words beginning in ONE of the following words (tell us which one; two word minimum): SPRINT
- The Reformatory | Tananarive Due ★★★★★ (03/01/24)

✔ 31. Kraft Macaroni & Cheese: Read a book set in the Second World War.
- Princess Elizabeth's Spy | Susan Elia MacNeal ★ (05/21/24)

✔ 32. Say What?: Read a book with an apostrophe in its title
- Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (03/21/24)

✔ 33. 2023 Author Scavenger Challenge: Author is someone you’d read at least once already before reading the book qualifying for this task.
- Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward ★★★ (02/03/24)
I've read Salvage the Bones and Sing Unburied Sing.

✔ 34. 2023 New-to-You Authors
Choose any month requiring both author initials NOW
- DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
Fire from Heaven | Mary Renault ★★ (04/19/24)

✔ 35. Newbery Medal Winners
Choose one book NOW and complete all three tasks
- Title | Adam of the Road
The Rocky Road to Ruin | Meri Allen ★★★★ (06/17/24)

- Author | Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Bullet Swallower | Elizabeth Gonzalez James ★★ (05/05/24)

- Scavenger | Read a book whose author or main character is named Adam or Elizabeth (no variations).
The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives | Adam Gamal ★★★ (03/14/24)
Adam.

✔ 38. Spring Scavenger: Read a book whose title contains at least one word with double consonants (like buNNy, meSSage)
Dear Miss Kopp | Amy Stewart ★★★★ (04/25/24)

✔ 39. April Scavenger: Read a book marked "Young Adult" on the GR main genre page.
The Crossroads | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (03/13/24)

✔ 40. May Scavenger: Read a book with a three-word title (all words count).
Close to Death | Anthony Horowitz ★★★ (05/04/24)

✔ 41. 2023-24 Listopia:
Choose one mod suggested list NOW; read two books from that list
Best Multicultural Mysteries
- #17. The Widows of Malabar Hill | Sujata Massey ★★ (04/28/24)
- #147. Confessions | Kanae Minato ★★ (10/07/24)

✔ 43. Olympics #43 - Alpine Skiing: Read a book first published in 2014.
The Whispering Skull | Jonathan Stroud ★ (03/02/24)
Sep. 16, 2014.

✔ 44. International Haiku Poetry Day: Read a book with a proper name in the title (does not have to be a person's name).
Carry On Jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse ★★★★★ (02/11/24)

✔ 45. X Marks the Spot: Read a book with a character who travels by train (tell us who).
Murder in the Bowery | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/27/24)
Malloy & Sarah.

✔ 46. Olympics #44 - Football (soccer): Read an author's first published book.
A Short Walk Through a Wide World | Douglas Westerbeke ★★★ (04/29/24)

✔ 47. Doughnuts: Read a book with a character whose native language isn't English (tell us who).
X-Men Epic Collection, Vol. 9: The Brood Saga | Chris Claremont ★★ (03/19/24)
Peter and Illyana are Russian, Kurt is German.

✔ 48. Oldest Known
Choose one task from each of the six sections NOW (sections are titled in bold)
- Art and Culture. Read a book in which someone dies (tell us who)
Murder on Eaton Square | Lee Strauss ★★★ (04/21/24)
Mr. and Mrs. Peck

- Science and Technology. Read a book that has a celestial body (sun, moon, stars, etc.) shown predominantly on its cover (post the cover).
The Book of Love | Kelly Link ★★ (02/29/24)


- Around the House. Read a book with something made of paper shown clearly on its cover (post the cover).
Body on Baker Street | Vicki Delany ★★ (02/08/24)


- Fun and Games. Read a book marked ‘HUMOUR’ (or ‘HUMOR’) on its GR main page.
Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble | Judy Gold ★★ (02/01/24)

- Larger Social Systems. Read a book that has a cardinal number in its title (so, one, 10, sixty, etc. would be OK, but first, tenth, sixtieth, etc. would NOT work).
Kind One | Laird Hunt ★★ (02/15/24)

- Structure/Institution. Read a book whose title starts with the letter B, K, or Q (ignore the, a, an).
Bloody Acquisitions | Drew Hayes ★★★★ (02/08/24)

- Transportation. Read a book that is set in China.
Daughters of Shandong | Eve J. Chung ★★★ (05/27/24)

✔ 55. June Scavenger: Read an action/thriller/mystery.
Killing Floor | Lee Child ★ (02/08/24)

✔ 56. Olympics #45 - Sliding Sports: Read a book where the first letter of every word in the title can be found in SLIDING SPORTS (two-word minimum; all words count, and a letter can only be used as many times as it appears in the phrase).
Die Laughing | Carola Dunn ★★★ (02/06/24)

📺12. Cleaning Up
This is me, yo, right here.

✔ C - The Mercy of Gods | James S.A. Corey ★★ (08/20/24)
✔ L - Checking Out Crime | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (08/07/24)
✔ E - House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company | Eva Dou ★★★ (03/12/25)
✔ A - The Castle of Llyr | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ N - No Virgin Island | C. Michele Dorsey ★★★ (10/13/24)
✔ I - The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells ★★★ (10/13/24)
✔ N - Drowning | T.J. Newman ★★ (11/05/24)
✔ G - The God of the Woods | Liz Moore ★★★★ (08/01/24)

✔ U - Unraveller | Frances Hardinge ★★★ (10/24/24)
✔ P - The Purity of Vengeance | Jussi Adler-Olsen ★★★★ (09/24/24)

✔ T - Murder on Bank Street | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/17/24)
✔ H - The Goose Girl | Shannon Hale ★★ (09/13/24)
✔ I - Death at the Salon | Louise R. Innes ★★ (10/19/24)
✔ S - State of Paradise | Laura van den Berg ★★★★ (08/12/24)

✔ I - We'll Prescribe You a Cat | Syou Ishida ★★★★ (11/04/24)
✔ S - The Ring of Solomon | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★ (08/14/24)

✔ M - Biscuits and Slashed Browns | Maddie Day ★★★ (09/13/24)
✔ E - Fagin the Thief | Allison Epstein ★★★ (03/17/25)

✔ Y - Flora's Dare | Ysabeau S. Wilce ★★★ (07/18/24)
✔ O - The Owl Killers | Karen Maitland ★★★ (01/06/25)

✔ R - The Girl from the Well | Rin Chupeco ★★★ (09/10/24)
✔ I - I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom | Jason Pargin ★★★★★ (11/09/24)
✔ G - We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels | Gary Janetti ★★ (08/11/24)
✔ H - Halting State | Charles Stross ★★★ (10/05/24)
✔ T - Murder on Waverly Place | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/18/24)

✔ H - The High King | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (10/09/24)
✔ E - Endangered Species | Nevada Barr ★★★ (03/19/25)
✔ R - Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories | Raymond Carver ★★★ (09/28/24)
✔ E - Black Woods Blue Sky | Eowyn Ivey ★ (03/19/25)

📺13. Sentencing
All in the game...

✔ S - The Spoiled Heart | Sunjeev Sahota ★★ (09/13/24)
✔ E - Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales | Heather Fawcett ★★★★ (03/26/25)
✔ N - Murder Under a Red Moon | Harini Nagendra ★★★ (11/06/24)
✔ T - Murder on Lexington Avenue | Victoria Thompson ★★ (10/19/24)
✔ E - Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism | Eve L. Ewing ★★★★ (03/26/25)
✔ N - The Children of Jocasta | Natalie Haynes ★ (11/23/24)
✔ C - The Castleton Affair | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (09/26/24)
✔ I - A Deceptive Devotion | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (11/19/24)
✔ N - Buried Deep and Other Stories | Naomi Novik ★★★★ (12/01/24)
✔ G - “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People | Aubrey Gordon ★★★★ (08/30/24)

✔ A - The Polish Officer | Alan Furst ★ (10/14/24)
✔ L - The Last Dragonslayer | Jasper Fforde ★★★ (08/23/24)
✔ L - Scorched Eggs | Laura Childs ★★ (09/07/24)

✔ I - I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir | Youngmi Mayer ★★★★★ (12/02/24)
✔ N - London Rain | Nicola Upson ★★ (01/10/25)

✔ T - Murder on Sisters' Row | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/20/24)
✔ H - The Fangs of Freelance | Drew Hayes ★★★★ (10/14/24)
✔ E - Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton ★★ (04/07/25)

✔ G - Guide Me Home | Attica Locke ★★★★ (09/29/24)
✔ A - Verse and Vengeance | Amanda Flower ★★★ (10/17/24)
✔ M - Sugar and Spite | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (09/30/24)
✔ E - The English Breakfast Murder | Laura Childs ★★★ (04/10/25)


*** Completed (04/10/25) ***

📺8. Lessons
Come at the king, you best not miss.

✔ L - The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth | Zoë Schlanger ★★★★ (06/18/24)
✔ E - The Examiner | Janice Hallett ★★★★ (10/28/24)
✔ S - A Short Walk Through a Wide World | Douglas Westerbeke ★★★ (04/29/24)
✔ S - Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | Salman Rushdie ★★★★ (04/30/24)
✔ O - Our Kind of Game | Johanna Copeland ★★ (08/26/24)
✔ N - The Last Sword Maker | Brian Nelson ★★★ (06/13/24)
✔ S - Ptolemy's Gate | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★★ (05/19/24)

✔ C - X-Men Classic: The Complete Collection, Vol. 2 | Chris Claremont ★★ (04/18/24)
✔ O - Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life | Laura James ★★ (09/17/24)
✔ M - Power Play | Beth McMullen ★★★★ (05/03/24)
✔ E - The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story | Olga Tokarczuk ★★★ (10/28/24)

✔ A - All Hallows | Christopher Golden ★ (08/06/24)
✔ T - Murder on Marble Row | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (08/29/24)

✔ T - Children of Memory | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★ (09/01/24)
✔ H - The Vegetarian | Han Kang ★★★ (06/16/24)
✔ E - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (11/10/24)

✔ K - Silence in the Library | Katharine Schellman ★★★ (09/26/24)
✔ I - Silence of the Grave | Arnaldur Indriðason ★★ (09/11/24)
✔ N - Sparks Like Stars | Nadia Hashimi ★★ (07/04/24)
✔ G - Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (07/22/24)

✔ Y - The Deep Sky | Yume Kitasei ★ (05/19/24)
✔ O - Once the Shore | Paul Yoon ★★ (09/17/24)
✔ U - Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World | Tom Zoellner ★★★★ (07/10/24)

✔ B - Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★ (07/12/24)
✔ E - Judgment at Santa Monica | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (11/16/24)
✔ S - Death in the English Countryside | Sara Rosett ★★★ (05/20/24)
✔ T - Thyme of Death | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (09/07/24)

✔ N - No Parm No Foul | Linda Reilly ★★ (07/05/24)
✔ O - We Solve Murders | Richard Osman ★★ (10/02/24)
✔ T - A Sorceress Comes to Call | T. Kingfisher ★★★★ (09/08/24)

✔ M - Curds of Prey | Korina Moss ★★★★ (06/01/24)
✔ I - A Sorrowful Sanctuary | Iona Whishaw ★★★ (09/16/24)
✔ S - Princess Elizabeth's Spy | Susan Elia MacNeal ★ (05/21/24)
✔ S - The Venetian Betrayal | Steve Berry ★★ (05/25/24)

📺9. Game Day
Maybe we won.

✔ G - Count Zero | William Gibson ★★★ (07/26/24)
✔ A - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams ★★★ (08/10/24)
✔ M - Clouds in My Coffee | Julie Mulhern ★ (06/02/24)
✔ E - Eggs on Ice | Laura Childs ★★ (11/17/24)

✔ D - The Diva Goes Overboard | Krista Davis ★★★★ (05/30/24)
✔ A - Between a Flock and a Hard Place | Donna Andrews ★★★★★ (08/13/24)
✔ Y - You Like It Darker | Stephen King ★★★ (07/03/24)

✔ M - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Mary Roach ★★★★ (07/11/24)
✔ A - Anagrams | Lorrie Moore ★★ (08/13/24)
✔ Y - The Book of Goose | Yiyun Li ★ (07/04/24)
✔ B - The Beekeeper's Apprentice | Laurie R. King ★ (07/21/24)
✔ E - A Murder at the Movies | Ellie Alexander ★★★ (11/19/24)

✔ W - The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts | Colson Whitehead ★★ (08/04/24)
✔ E - The Mighty Red | Louise Erdrich ★★ (11/21/24)

✔ W - The Golden Hour | Beatriz Williams ★★★ (09/22/24)
✔ O - Once Upon a Crime | Michael Buckley ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ N - In the Time of Love: A Modern Arabic Novel | Naguib Mahfouz ★★ (07/18/24)

📺10. The Cost
And then he dropped the bracelets…

✔ T - Tunnel of Bones | Victoria Schwab ★★★ (09/09/24)
✔ H - The Hurtwood Village Murders | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (07/07/24)
✔ E - Egg Drop Dead | Vivien Chien ★★★ (01/07/25)

✔ C - Joan | Katherine J. Chen ★★ (07/24/24)
✔ O - Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge | Ovidia Yu ★★★ (10/11/24)
✔ S - The Dark Is Rising | Susan Cooper ★★★★ (06/05/24)
✔ T - Mrs. Morris and the Ghost | Traci Wilton ★ (09/25/24)

✔ A - The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast | Andrew Blum ★★ (08/14/24)
✔ N - The Nursing Home Murder | Ngaio Marsh ★★★ (07/25/24)
✔ D - A Mourning Wedding | Carola Dunn ★★★★ (06/09/24)

✔ T - The Tale of Hill Top Farm | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (10/03/24)
✔ H - Assassins Anonymous | Rob Hart ★★★ (07/08/24)
✔ E - End of Watch | Stephen King ★★ (01/20/25)
✔ N - Read on Arrival | Nora Page ★★★ (09/02/24)

✔ H - The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★ (07/13/24)
✔ E - Murder at an Irish Castle | Ellie Brannigan ★★★ (01/23/25)

✔ D - Fortune Hunter | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (07/02/24)
✔ R - Fur Love or Money | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (07/09/24)
✔ O - Meddling and Murder | Ovidia Yu ★ (10/13/24)
✔ P - Murder Can Frost Your Doughnut | Rose Pressey ★★ (08/04/24)
✔ P - Comic Sans Murder | Paige Shelton ★★★ (08/12/24)
✔ E - The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare ★★★ (01/28/25)
✔ D - The Dead Cat Tail Assassins | P. Djèlí Clark ★★★★ (08/24/24)

✔ T - Taran Wanderer | Lloyd Alexander ★★ (10/07/24)
✔ H - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold ★★★★ (07/14/24)
✔ E - Baudolino | Umberto Eco ★★★ (01/29/25)

✔ B - Dark Matter | Blake Crouch ★ (09/03/24)
✔ R - Reputations | Juan Gabriel Vásquez ★★ (07/15/24)
✔ A - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon ★★ (08/28/24)
✔ C - Greenwitch | Susan Cooper ★★★★ (08/02/24)
✔ E - All the Water in the World | Eiren Caffall ★★ (01/30/25)
✔ L - Dinosaurs | Lydia Millet ★★★ (07/09/24)
✔ E - Queen's Peril | E.K. Johnston ★★ (02/07/25)
✔ T - Tales From the Hood | Michael Buckley ★★ (10/09/24)
✔ S - Sour Heart | Jenny Zhang ★ (06/16/24)

📺11. The Hunt
Dope on the damn table

✔ T - Murder on Lenox Hill | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/11/24)
✔ H - My Calamity Jane | Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows ★ (07/16/24)
✔ E - Murder Comes to Call | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (02/09/25)

✔ H - HHhH | Laurent Binet ★★★★★ (08/11/24)
✔ U - Under the Surface | Diana Urban ★★ (10/01/24)
✔ N - Firestorm | Nevada Barr ★★★ (07/26/24)
✔ T - Alien Clay | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★★ (10/11/24)

✔ D - Death at Morning House | Maureen Johnson ★★★★ (09/08/24)
✔ O - Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell ★★★★ (10/17/24)
✔ P - The Loch Ness Papers | Paige Shelton ★★ (08/26/24)
✔ E - Dark Echoes of the Past | Ramón Díaz Eterovic ★★★ (02/10/25)

✔ O - One of the Girls | Lucy Clarke ★★ (01/03/25)
✔ N - Now You See It | Carol J. Perry ★ (09/03/24)

✔ T - Murder in Little Italy | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/13/24)
✔ H - A Witch Before Dying | Heather Blake ★★★ (08/31/24)
✔ E - Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You | Ethan Kross ★★★★ (03/04/25)

✔ D - The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops | Damien Lewis ★★★ (09/29/24)
✔ A - What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust | Alan Bradley ★★★★★ (09/14/24)
✔ M - Six Feet Deep Dish | Mindy Quigley ★★★★ (08/02/24)
✔ N - No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories | Gabriel García Márquez ★★★ (10/05/24)

✔ T - Murder in Chinatown | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/15/24)
✔ A - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye | Victoria Laurie ★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ B - The Problem Child | Michael Buckley ★★★ (09/18/24)
✔ L - Lost Hours | Paige Shelton ★★★★ (07/15/24)
✔ E - Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future | Jason F. Stanley ★★★ (03/05/25)

📺4. Old Cases
It's a thin line 'tween heaven and here.

✔ O - The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma ★★ (07/01/24)
✔ L - Fight No More: Stories | Lydia Millet ★★ (02/10/24)
✔ D - Die Laughing | Carola Dunn ★★★ (02/06/24)

✔ C - Dearly Depotted | Kate Collins ★★★ (03/12/24)
✔ A - Dear Miss Kopp | Amy Stewart ★★★★ (04/25/24)
✔ S - The Whispering Skull | Jonathan Stroud ★ (03/02/24)
✔ E - The Bullet Swallower | Elizabeth Gonzalez James ★★ (05/05/24)
✔ S - Murder at the Boat Club | Lee Strauss ★★★★ (03/14/24)

✔ I - Phantom Orbit | David Ignatius ★★ (06/05/24)
✔ T - 'Til Death | Carol J. Perry ★★ (05/24/24)
✔ S - The Body in the Garden | Katharine Schellman ★★★ (03/15/24)

✔ A - The Bad Ones | Melissa Albert ★★★ (05/06/24)

✔ T - Long Island | Colm Tóibín ★ (06/01/24)
✔ H - Murder at the Lakeside Library | Holly Danvers ★★ (03/22/24)
✔ I - Islands | Marta Randall ★★ (06/07/24)
✔ N - New Mutants Epic Collection, Vol. 1: Renewal | Chris Claremont ★★ (05/14/24)

✔ L - Delphiniums and Deception | Ruby Loren ★★★ (02/27/24)
✔ I - In the Market for Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/10/24)
✔ N - Night of the Living Rez | Morgan Talty ★★★★ (05/14/24)
✔ E - Excellent Women | Barbara Pym ★★★★ (05/09/24)

✔ T - Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World | Theresa MacPhail ★★★★ (06/09/24)
✔ W - Winter Counts | David Heska Wanbli Weiden ★★ (07/11/24)
✔ E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 4 | Chris Claremont ★★★ (05/09/24)
✔ E - I Cheerfully Refuse | Leif Enger ★★★★ (05/22/24)
✔ N - Natural History | Andrea Barrett ★★★ (05/15/24)

✔ H - How to Solve Your Own Murder | Kristen Perrin ★★★★ (04/04/24)
✔ E - Daughters of Shandong | Eve J. Chung ★★★ (05/27/24)
✔ A - Anita de Monte Laughs Last | Xóchitl González ★★ (05/09/24)
✔ V - Bridge of Souls | Victoria Schwab ★★★★ (09/09/24)
✔ E - Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies | Catherine Mack ★★ (05/29/24)
✔ N - Julia | Sandra Newman ★★ (05/17/24)

✔ A - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★ (05/15/24)
✔ N - Now You See Me | Sharon J. Bolton ★★ (05/18/24)
✔ D - Body on Baker Street | Vicki Delany ★★ (02/08/24)

✔ H - Close to Death | Anthony Horowitz ★★★ (05/04/24)
✔ E - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War | Erik Larson ★★★ (06/03/24)
✔ R - Fire from Heaven | Mary Renault ★★ (04/19/24)
✔ E - The Stranger in the Library | Eva Gates ★★★★ (06/06/24)

📺5. The Pager
a little slow, a little late

✔ T - Children of Ruin | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★★ (06/15/24)
✔ H - Death of a Kitchen Diva | Lee Hollis ★ (05/14/24)
✔ E - The Garden of Evening Mists | Tan Twan Eng ★ (06/14/24)

✔ P - 320 pages. X-Men: First Class - Band of Brothers | Jeff Parker ★★★ (04/12/24) + X-Men: First Class Finals | Jeff Parker ★★ (04/13/24)
✔ A - What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds | Jennifer Ackerman ★★★★ (05/20/24)
✔ G - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal | Mary Roach ★★★ (06/17/24)
✔ E - Everything's Eventual | Stephen King ★★★★ (06/28/24)
✔ R - Babel | R.F. Kuang ★★★ (05/02/24)

✔ A - The Black Cauldron | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (05/22/24)

✔ L - The Book of Love | Kelly Link ★★ (02/29/24)
✔ I - The Whistling Season | Ivan Doig ★★★★★ (07/19/24)
✔ T - The Last Murder at the End of the World | Stuart Turton ★★★ (06/29/24)
✔ T - Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money | Rebecca Curtis ★★ (07/07/24)
✔ L - Gone with the Whisker | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (04/15/24)
✔ E - Last Night in Montreal | Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★★ (06/29/24)

✔ S - See Something | Carol J. Perry ★★ (03/24/24)
✔ L - Murder on Eaton Square | Lee Strauss ★★★ (04/21/24)
✔ O - Out of Circulation | Miranda James ★★ (07/01/24)
✔ W - Waterland | Graham Swift ★★ (08/01/24)

✔ A - The Warm Hands of Ghosts | Katherine Arden ★★★ (05/27/24)

✔ L - The Familiar | Leigh Bardugo ★★ (05/12/24)
✔ I - All My Mother's Lovers | Ilana Masad ★★ (08/04/24)
✔ T - Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow ★★ (07/08/24)
✔ T - Thread Herrings | Lea Wait ★★ (07/09/24)
✔ L - Lyrics Alley | Leila Aboulela ★★ (05/30/24)
✔ E - Thunderstruck | Erik Larson ★★ (07/06/24)

✔ L - Prince of Thorns | Mark Lawrence ★★★ (06/03/24)
✔ A - Firekeeper’s Daughter | Angeline Boulley ★ (06/10/24)
✔ T - All My Puny Sorrows | Miriam Toews ★★ (07/19/24)
✔ E - Vida | Patricia Engel ★★★ (07/14/24)

📺6. The Wire
and all the pieces matter.

✔ T - The Queen of Poisons | Robert Thorogood ★★ (07/21/24)
✔ H - The Kamogawa Food Detectives | Hisashi Kashiwai ★★ (05/22/24)
✔ E - Fishing for Trouble | Elizabeth Logan ★★★ (08/03/24)

✔ W - We Others: New and Selected Stories | Steven Millhauser ★★ (08/02/24)
✔ I - Incidents Around the House | Josh Malerman ★ (08/08/24)
✔ R - Moon of the Crusted Snow | Waubgeshig Rice ★★ (05/12/24)
✔ E - All We Buried | Elena Taylor ★★★ (08/06/24)

✔ A - The Library of the Unwritten | A.J. Hackwith ★★★★ (06/11/24)
✔ N - The Narrow | Kate Alice Marshall ★★ (05/28/24)
✔ D - Murder Outside the Lines | Krista Davis ★★★ (04/12/24)

✔ A - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll ★★ (06/14/24)
✔ L - The Center of Everything | Laura Moriarty ★★★ (06/04/24)
✔ L - Last Writes | Laura Levine ★★★ (06/12/24)

✔ T - Gallatin Canyon | Thomas McGuane ★★★ (07/22/24)
✔ H - The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club | Helen Simonson ★★★ (05/31/24)
✔ E - The Body in the Bookstore | Ellie Alexander ★★★ (08/11/24)

✔ P - 320 pages. X-Men: First Class - The Wonder Years | Jeff Parker ★★★ (04/12/24) + X-Men: Magneto Testament | Greg Pak ★★★★ (04/13/24)
✔ I - House of Bone and Rain | Gabino Iglesias ★★ (09/01/24)
✔ E - Pageboy | Elliot Page ★★★ (08/31/24)
✔ C - X-Men Epic Collection, Vol. 9: The Brood Saga | Chris Claremont ★★ (03/19/24)
✔ E - Erasure | Percival Everett ★★★★ (09/05/24)
✔ S - Prince of Fire | Daniel Silva ★★★ (04/01/24)

✔ M - Mission Manhattan | James Ponti ★★★★ (02/26/24)
✔ A - The Rocky Road to Ruin | Meri Allen ★★★★ (06/17/24)
✔ T - Jingo | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (07/29/24)
✔ T - The Last Continent | Terry Pratchett ★★★★ (07/31/24)
✔ E - There Are Rivers in the Sky | Elif Shafak ★★★★ (09/15/24)
✔ R - Sudden Death | David Rosenfelt ★★★ (05/23/24)

📺7. One Arrest
A man must have a code.

✔ O - Other Minds | Peter Godfrey-Smith ★★★ (08/03/24)
✔ N - Ill Wind | Nevada Barr ★★★ (06/12/24)
✔ E - The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry | Ransom Riggs ★★ (09/25/24)

✔ A - Age of Myth | Michael J. Sullivan ★★★★ (06/30/24)
✔ R - Rules for Vanishing | Kate Alice Marshall ★★★★ (05/25/24)
✔ R - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach ★★★★ (06/30/24)
✔ E - Egg Drop Dead | Laura Childs ★★ (09/30/24)
✔ S - Grief Is for People | Sloane Crosley ★★★★★ (04/06/24)
✔ T - To Catch a Storm | Mindy Mejia ★★★ (08/03/24)

✔ A - Annie John | Jamaica Kincaid ★★ (07/06/24)

✔ M - Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (03/21/24)
✔ A - Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities | Amy Stewart ★★★ (07/14/24)
✔ N - The Death of Lucy Kyte | Nicola Upson ★★★ (06/12/24)

✔ M - Murder at Everham Hall | Benedict Brown ★★★ (04/07/24)
✔ U - Urchin of the Riding Stars | M.I. McAllister ★★★★ (07/03/24)
✔ S - The Widows of Malabar Hill | Sujata Massey ★★ (04/28/24)
✔ T - Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien ★★★★ (08/08/24)

✔ H - Half Broke Horses | Jeannette Walls ★ (05/31/24)
✔ A - Murder in the Mews | Agatha Christie ★★★ (07/23/24)
✔ V - Grave Importance | Vivian Shaw ★★ (09/27/24)
✔ E - The Everafter War | Michael Buckley ★★★ (10/12/24)

✔ A - All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy ★★★ (08/05/24)

✔ C - X-Men Classic: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 | Chris Claremont ★★ (04/17/24)
✔ O - Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card ★ (08/22/24)
✔ D - Double Cross | Beth McMullen ★★★★ (05/17/24)
✔ E - Murder Cuts the Mustard | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (10/12/24)

Finished.

TV Episodes Spell Out: The Wire

Duration: Feb 01, 2024 - Jul 31, 2024
Completed: 372/372

📺1. The Target
when it's not your turn.

✔ T - Live and Let Grind | Tara Lush ★★ (02/04/24)
✔ H - Bloody Acquisitions | Drew Hayes ★★★★ (02/08/24)
✔ E - You Dreamed of Empires | Álvaro Enrigue ★★★★★ (02/06/24)

✔ T - The Memory Theater | Karin Tidbeck ★★★★ (02/17/24)
✔ A - Mercury | Amy Jo Burns ★★ (02/02/24)
✔ R - A Royal Pain | Rhys Bowen ★★★ (02/09/24)
✔ G - Death in Delft | Graham Brack ★★★ (02/16/24)
✔ E - Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (02/12/24)
✔ T - The Tainted Cup | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★★ (02/24/24)

✔ W - Work Like Any Other | Virginia Reeves ★ (07/05/24)
✔ H - Hurricane Force | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (02/13/24)
✔ E - Murder Flies the Coop | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (02/24/24)
✔ N - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World | Naomi Klein ★★★★★ (02/09/24)

✔ I - Murder in the Crypt | Irina Shapiro ★★★ (02/19/24)
✔ T - A Quiet Life in the Country | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (02/25/24)
✔ S - Whose Body? | Dorothy L. Sayers ★★★ (02/02/24)

✔ N - The Bedlam Stacks | Natasha Pulley ★★ (03/24/24)
✔ O - Poor Deer | Claire Oshetsky ★★★ (02/05/24)
✔ T - The Reformatory | Tananarive Due ★★★★★ (03/01/24)

✔ Y - Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble | Judy Gold ★★ (02/01/24)
✔ O - Off Kilter | Hannah Reed ★★ (02/27/24)
✔ U - Un Lun Dun | China Miéville ★★★★★ (02/14/24)
✔ R - Right Ho, Jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse ★★★★★ (02/11/24)

✔ T - What Feasts at Night | T. Kingfisher ★★ (03/09/24)
✔ U - Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine | Uché Blackstock ★★★★★ (02/25/24)
✔ R - The Woman on the Ledge | Ruth Mancini ★★ (02/12/24)
✔ N - The Mystery Guest | Nita Prose ★★ (04/02/24)

📺2. The Detail
You cannot lose if you do not play.

✔ T - Murder on Mulberry Bend | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (03/25/24)
✔ H - Kind One | Laird Hunt ★★ (02/15/24)
✔ E - Eggs in a Casket | Laura Childs ★★ (03/11/24)

✔ D - Dead West | Matt Goldman ★★★ (02/03/24)
✔ E - Eternals by Jack Kirby: The Complete Collection | Jack Kirby ★★★ (03/17/24)
✔ T - Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★ (03/28/24)
✔ A - Murders and Metaphors | Amanda Flower ★★ (02/18/24)
✔ I - The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles | Malka Ann Older ★★★★ (03/11/24)
✔ L - Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward ★★★ (02/03/24)

✔ Y - Yumi and the Nightmare Painter | Brandon Sanderson ★★★★ (02/29/24)
✔ O - Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out | Gracie Gold ★★★ (03/08/24)
✔ U - The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives | Adam Gamal ★★★ (03/14/24)

✔ C - Carry On Jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse ★★★★★ (02/11/24)
✔ A - The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder | C.L. Miller ★ (03/01/24)
✔ N - 504 pages. Eternals | Neil Gaiman ★★★ (03/18/24) + Marvel 1602 | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (04/11/24)
✔ N - The Murder of Mr. Ma | John Shen Yen Nee & S J Rozan ★★ (04/20/24)
✔ O - Wandering Stars | Tommy Orange ★★★★ (03/30/24)
✔ T - Murder Book | Thomas Perry ★★ (04/17/24)

✔ L - Let Me Die in His Footsteps | Lori Roy ★ (02/04/24)
✔ O - The Morningside | Téa Obreht ★★★★★ (04/10/24)
✔ S - A Wedding to Die For | Leann Sweeney ★★ (02/07/24)
✔ E - The March | E.L. Doctorow ★★★★ (04/09/24)

✔ I - Instruments of Darkness | Imogen Robertson ★★ (04/05/24)
✔ F - A Wee Murder in My Shop | Fran Stewart ★★★ (09/02/24)

✔ Y - The Yard | Alex Grecian ★★ (03/27/24)
✔ O - Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials | Ovidia Yu ★★★★ (05/18/24)
✔ U - Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Vol. 1 | Stan Sakai ★★★★★ (03/20/24)

✔ D - The Dog Across the Lake | Krista Davis ★★ (02/03/24)
✔ O - Our Last Echoes | Kate Alice Marshall ★★★ (05/29/24)

✔ N - Menewood | Nicola Griffith ★★ (05/08/24)
✔ O - Of Spice and Men | Sarah Fox ★★ (06/16/24)
✔ T - Table for Two | Amor Towles ★★ (04/26/24)

✔ P - 336 pages. X-Men: First Class - Tomorrow's Brightest | Jeff Parker ★★★ (04/11/24) + X-Men: First Class - Mutant Mayhem | Jeff Parker ★★★ (04/12/24)
✔ L - Killing Floor | Lee Child ★ (02/08/24)
✔ A - Started Early, Took My Dog | Kate Atkinson ★★ (04/03/24)
✔ Y - The Fox Wife | Yangsze Choo ★★★★ (03/29/24)

📺3. The Buys
The king stay the king.

✔ T - The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony | Annabelle Tometich ★★★★★ (05/10/24)
✔ H - The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels | Janice Hallett ★★★★ (02/16/24)
✔ E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 1 | Chris Claremont ★★★★ (04/14/24)

✔ B - Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters | Brian Klaas ★★★ (04/21/24)
✔ U - Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley | Brent Underwood ★★★★ (04/21/24)
✔ Y - Last Rituals | Yrsa Sigurdardottir ★★ (04/23/24)
✔ S - Lost Books and Old Bones | Paige Shelton ★★★ (02/10/24)

✔ T - The Gathering | C.J. Tudor ★★★ (05/14/24)
✔ H - How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite | Chris Balakrishnan & Matt Wasowski ★★★ (03/10/24)
✔ E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 2 | Chris Claremont ★★★★ (04/19/24)

✔ K - The Shining | Stephen King ★★★ (07/20/24)
✔ I - If Cats Disappeared from the World | Genki Kawamura ★★ (05/11/24)
✔ N - Nuclear War: A Scenario | Annie Jacobsen ★★★★★ (05/10/24)
✔ G - The Crossroads | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (03/13/24)

✔ S - Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection | Charles Duhigg ★★★ (02/26/24)
✔ T - Four Leaf Felony | Tonya Kappes ★ (05/18/24)
✔ A - The American Daughters | Maurice Carlos Ruffin ★★★★ (04/06/24)
✔ Y - Murder by the Seashore | Samara Yew ★★ (05/17/24)

✔ T - These Fleeting Shadows | Kate Alice Marshall ★★★★ (05/19/24)
✔ H - The Apollo Murders | Chris Hadfield ★★★ (03/13/24)
✔ E - Essential X-Men, Vol. 3 | Chris Claremont ★★★ (04/24/24)

✔ K - Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King ★★★★★ (09/04/24)
✔ I - In the Distance | Hernan Diaz ★★★★ (05/17/24)
✔ N - Indian Burial Ground | Nick Medina ★★ (05/13/24)
✔ G - Murder in the Corn Maze | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (04/09/24)

Congrats, L&M!

Thanks Barb! Welcome Mary! I've signed you up. :)

Congrats, Meg and Michelle!

Angel wrote: "Guess #7

[bookcover:Falling in Love at the Movies: Rom-Com..."

You have 4 colors correct and two are in the right positions.

Angel wrote: "Guess #12
Suspect: Librarian (L.B.)
Cause of death: Fall (boat)
Location: Wayne Enterprises (P&S)

- Cara Bastone - 4/9/25

[book:Till th..."

The murder was not at Wayne Enterprises.

Meg wrote: "Landscaper ==> Lucy Connelly - An American in Scotland 04/04

Drowning (body of water) ==> Blink of an Eye, Alyssa Day 04/05

Ba..."

The murder was not at the Bad Wolf Corporation.

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Next guess: D-3

Postmortem by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Pages : 342
Read : 7/15"

D3 is a miss.

Mary-Megan wrote: "Next guess:

C4 - Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli [406 pages] (4/2)"

C4 is a miss.

Congrats, Angel!

Congrats, Robin!