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

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Congrats, Meg!

Congrats, Kathy and Barb!

Congrats, Chris!

Congrats, Mary!

Congrats, Bonita, Mary and Maggie!

Congrats, Tari!

Congrats, Frankie and Carolyn!

Great job, Karen and Barb!

I'm finished.

Empanadas

Duration: Nov 01, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024
Completed: 15/15

✔ 1. Read a book you really liked. (A book you rated 4 or 5 stars, tells us your rating).
Death by Pantyhose | Laura Levine ★★★★ (11/02/24)

✔ 2. Read a book published in a year ending in zero (post the publication year).
Death of a Trophy Wife | Laura Levine ★★★★ (11/03/24)
Pub. 2010.

✔ 3. Read a book with a main character whose first name begins with a letter in LATIN AMERICA, (tell us the name) -and- Read a book set in a location beginning with a letter in PHILLIPPINES; (tell us where).
Lowcountry Boomerang | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (11/02/24)
Liz, set in Stella Maris.

✔ 4. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in BELL PEPPERS (ignore A, An and The).
Lowcountry Boondoggle | Susan M. Boyer ★★ (11/02/24)

✔ 5. Read a very popular book (more than 600,000 ratings in GR, tell us).
The Gunslinger | Stephen King ★★★ (11/16/24)
629,054 ratings.

✔ 6. Read a book where a main character travels anywhere (tell us who and where).
Killer Cruise | Laura Levine ★★★★ (11/03/24)
Jaine goes on a cruise to Mexico.

Spell

✔ E - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (11/10/24)
✔ M - The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates ★★★★★ (11/04/24)
✔ P - The Breakdown | B.A. Paris ★★ (11/05/24)
✔ A - Rockin' Around the Chickadee | Donna Andrews ★★★★ (11/05/24)
✔ N - Murder Under a Red Moon | Harini Nagendra ★★★ (11/06/24)
✔ A - The Last Word | Taylor Adams ★★ (11/07/24)
✔ D - Drowning | T.J. Newman ★★ (11/05/24)
✔ A - Dumb Witness | Agatha Christie ★★ (11/09/24)
✔ S - We'll Prescribe You a Cat | Syou Ishida ★★★★ (11/04/24)

*** Completed (11/16/24) ***

I haven't been getting notifications for this thread! Welcome Kathy! Congrats, Joann & L&M!

Finished.

Fall 2024 Spell

Duration: Sep 21, 2024 - Dec 20, 2024
Completed: 36/36

✔ R - Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories | Raymond Carver ★★★ (09/28/24)
✔ E - The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry | Ransom Riggs ★★ (09/25/24)
✔ D - Death Over Easy | Maddie Day ★★ (10/08/24)

✔ O - We Solve Murders | Richard Osman ★★ (10/02/24)
✔ R - Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody | Barbara Ross ★★★ (10/29/24)
✔ A - The Purity of Vengeance | Jussi Adler-Olsen ★★★★ (09/24/24)
✔ N - No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories | Gabriel García Márquez ★★★ (10/05/24)
✔ G - The Golden Hour | Beatriz Williams ★★★ (09/22/24)
✔ E - Egg Drop Dead | Laura Childs ★★ (09/30/24)

✔ Y - Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge | Ovidia Yu ★★★ (10/11/24)
✔ E - The Everafter War | Michael Buckley ★★★ (10/12/24)
✔ L - Guide Me Home | Attica Locke ★★★★ (09/29/24)
✔ 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)
✔ O - Once Upon a Crime | Michael Buckley ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ W - Mrs. Morris and the Ghost | Traci Wilton ★ (09/25/24)

✔ G - Grave Importance | Vivian Shaw ★★ (09/27/24)
✔ R - Jane Darrowfield and the Madwoman Next Door | Barbara Ross ★★ (10/29/24)
✔ E - Murder Cuts the Mustard | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (10/12/24)
✔ E - The Examiner | Janice Hallett ★★★★ (10/28/24)
✔ N - No Virgin Island | C. Michele Dorsey ★★★ (10/13/24)

✔ B - The Castleton Affair | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (09/26/24)
✔ L - The Castle of Llyr | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ U - Under the Surface | Diana Urban ★★ (10/01/24)
✔ E - The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story | Olga Tokarczuk ★★★ (10/28/24)

✔ I - The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells ★★★ (10/13/24)
✔ N - Drowning | T.J. Newman ★★ (11/05/24)
✔ D - Dead and Berried | Peg Cochran ★★★ (10/12/24)
✔ I - We'll Prescribe You a Cat | Syou Ishida ★★★★ (11/04/24)
✔ G - Sugar and Spite | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (09/30/24)
✔ O - Meddling and Murder | Ovidia Yu ★ (10/13/24)

✔ V - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye | Victoria Laurie ★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ I - Death at the Salon | Louise R. Innes ★★ (10/19/24)
✔ O - Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell ★★★★ (10/17/24)
✔ L - Taran Wanderer | Lloyd Alexander ★★ (10/07/24)
✔ E - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (11/10/24)
✔ T - The Tale of Hill Top Farm | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (10/03/24)

*** Completed (11/10/24) ***

Took a while to find Australia in my books.

Summer 2024 Scavenger Challenge

Duration: Jun 21, 2024 - Sep 20, 2024
Completed: 23/18+

Fastest Steel Rollercoasters

✔ 1. Formula Rossa
🎢Read a book first published in 2010 -and- read a book whose cover shows a car prominently (post the cover).
Vida | Patricia Engel ★★★ (07/14/24)
Pub. Sep 07, 2010.


✔ 2. Kingda Ka
🎢 Read a book with a tiger or a hat on the cover (post the cover).
In the Market for Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/10/24)


✔ 3. Top Thrill 2
🎢 Read a book in which someone is injured by accident (tell us who).
Everything's Eventual | Stephen King ★★★★ (06/28/24)
Howard.

✔ 4. Red Force
🎢 Read a book with a predominantly red cover (post the cover).
The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma ★★ (07/01/24)


✔ 5. Do-dodonpa
🎢 Read a book in which someone sustains broken bones (tell us who).
Assassins Anonymous | Rob Hart ★★★ (07/08/24)
A number of people who tangle with Mark.

✔ 6. Superman: Escape from Krypton
🎢 Read a book set in Australia.
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (11/10/24)

✔ 7. Ring Racer
🎢 Read a book from a series that has ended (tell us the series).
Urchin of the Riding Stars | M.I. McAllister ★★★★ (07/03/24)
Mistmantle Chronicles #1.

✔ 8. Steel Dragon 2000
🎢 Read a book first published in any year of the dragon (tell us when your book was published)
The Hurtwood Village Murders | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (07/07/24)
Pub. Feb 22, 2024. Year of the dragon started on Feb 10, 2024.

✔ 9. Fury 325
🎢 Read a book with a wasp, bee or hornet on the cover (post the cover).
The Beekeeper's Apprentice | Laurie R. King ★ (07/21/24)


✔ 10. Millenium Force
🎢 Read a book which shows a body of water prominently on the cover (post the cover).
You Like It Darker | Stephen King ★★★ (07/03/24)


✔ 11. Leviathan
🎢 Read a book set in Canada.
Last Night in Montreal | Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★★ (06/29/24)

✔ 12. Orion
🎢 Read a book whose main character or author shares a name with a planet, moon, star or constellation.
Out of Circulation | Miranda James ★★ (07/01/24)
Miranda is Uranus' moon.

✔ 13. Project 305
🎢 Read a book in which a character faints for whatever reason (tell us why).
Age of Myth | Michael J. Sullivan ★★★★ (06/30/24)
Arion gets hit on the head.


Fastest Wooden Coasters

✔ 1. Goliath
🎢 Read a book that has the word Goliath or a synonym in its title or subtitle.
The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts | Colson Whitehead ★★ (08/04/24)

✔ 2. Wildfire
🎢 Read a book in which climate or environment is a concern.
The Last Murder at the End of the World | Stuart Turton ★★★ (06/29/24)
There's a mist born of climate change that has killed most people on earth and a small island in Greece is the only one who has been able to keep it out. But now it's encroaching on them as well.

✔ 3. El Toro
🎢 Read a book whose number of pages contain an intact 76 (tell us the number of pages).
Greenwitch | Susan Cooper ★★★★ (08/02/24)
176 pages.

✔ 4. Colossos – Kampf der Giganten🎢 Read a book that you think is plug and play (as in, some parts of its plot seem similar to other books. Using spoiler tags, tell us which book it reminds you of and why).
No Parm No Foul | Linda Reilly ★★ (07/05/24)
Very much like every cozy mystery ever.

✔ 5. Outlaw Run
🎢 Read a book with "Western" on its main GR page.
The Whistling Season | Ivan Doig ★★★★★ (07/19/24)

✔ 6. The Voyage
🎢 Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover (post the cover).
Thunderstruck | Erik Larson ★★ (07/06/24)


✔ 7. The Boss
🎢 Read read a book whose author or main character shares a name with a Knight of the Round Table.
Erasure | Percival Everett ★★★★ (09/05/24)

✔ 8. American Eagle
🎢 Read a book either set or was first published in the 1980s (tell us which year).
Annie John | Jamaica Kincaid ★★ (07/06/24)
Pub. 1985.

✔ 9. The Beast
🎢 Read a book where someone doesn't rely on or believe in technology (tell us who).
Work Like Any Other | Virginia Reeves ★ (07/05/24)
Roscoe's father-in-law & Bean.

✔ 10. T Express
🎢 Read a book set in a small town in Europe (tell us which town).
The Book of Goose | Yiyun Li ★ (07/04/24)
Saint Remy and Surrey.

*** Completed (11/10/24) ***

Finished.

November 2024 Scavenger Challenge

Duration: Nov 01, 2024 - Nov 30, 2024
Completed: 9/9

✔ 1. Evaporation: Read a book where a speaking character undergoes a change through the story. (Please tell us who and what is changed).
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door | H.G. Parry ★★★ (11/12/24)
(view spoiler)[Michael is first infected with a faerie disease which is progressing towards killing him, a magical cure reduces his infection but not entirely. When the faerie comes back into the world his infection rapidly progresses as well (hide spoiler)] .

✔ 2. Condensation: Read a book with multiple similar objects in the cover (post the cover).
Lowcountry Boondoggle | Susan M. Boyer ★★ (11/02/24)

The cups.

✔ 3. Precipitation: Read a book with rain or snow on the cover, (post the cover).
Rockin' Around the Chickadee | Donna Andrews ★★★★ (11/05/24)

✔ 4. Interception: Read a book where something going on is interrupted (Please explain and use spoilers tags if needed).
Killing Bridezilla | Laura Levine ★★★★ (11/03/24)
A wedding is interrupted because the bride falls from a height and dies.

✔ 5. Infiltration: Read a book where someone infiltrates a group, company or organization, (Please explain and use spoilers tags if needed).
Murder Under a Red Moon | Harini Nagendra ★★★ (11/06/24)
Anandi works as a maid in the Sharma household to find out if one of the Sharma women killed the patriarch. She also infiltrates the godman’s group to find the truth about his illegal activities.

✔ 6. Percolation: Read a book you have wanted to read for more than two years (tell us when you added it to your to-read shelf).
Killer Cruise | Laura Levine ★★★★ (11/03/24)
Added Jan 2017.

✔ 7. Transpiration: Read a book that takes place in a single day.
Drowning | T.J. Newman ★★ (11/05/24)

✔ 8. Runoff: Read a book where the flow of the story makes you read it very fast. (Tell us when you start reading it).
Death by Pantyhose | Laura Levine ★★★★ (11/02/24)
I started reading about 3 hours before I finished it.

✔ 9. Storage: Read a book with a 3 in the first published year (Tell us the year).
We'll Prescribe You a Cat | Syou Ishida ★★★★ (11/04/24)
Pub. 2023.

*** Completed (11/12/14) ***

Agnieszka wrote: "Round 17 - Agnieszka picks for Chaitra

It was very hard to pick ‘only four’ books for you. As often as I discovered something new looking great it could’ve been easily 20 - in the end I decided on..."

LOL. Thanks for the picks! I agree about mint chocolate - my favorite kind! I'm upset for you that it's rare in Germany!

Round 17, Picking for Jennifer

Jennifer, I picked books from series that you're quite far along, and because I couldn't resist, one series #1. Hope you like your picks!

Congrats, Jimena!

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Next guess: S-8

Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher
Pages: 282
Read: 4/30"

S-8 is a miss.

storm

Congrats, Jan!

Meg wrote: "Landscaper ==> Sarah Adler - Mrs. Nash's Ashes 11/07

Beheading (ax) ==> Saddled with Murder, Eileen Brady 11/14

Wayne Enter..."

The murderer was not the landscaper.