Thermometer and Reporting Thread

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

Our "Random Acts of Kindness" thermometer

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

When you read a book where someone does a kindly deed, post it here. Tell us what happened (use general terms or a spoiler, please :).

All we need to know is the name of the book and the nice thing that someone did. At the end of each day, I will add the total to the thermometer.

[JoAnne]

I'm so in. Be Kind has been a theme at our elementary school for a couple of years. We even had a Kindness Tree mural put up in the lobby with the help of Ben's Bells from Newtown that was created after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School which is only 2 towns over from us.

I think you meant to say no spoilers in the directions.

[Tari]

This sounds like the perfect boost, count me in.

[Book Concierge]

Book I finished today .... Enrique's Journey ... People throw food and clothing to the migrants traveling atop the trains that run through their villages.

[Tiffany]

I’m in!

[Moondance]

What a wonderful idea! I’ll give it a try.

[Erin]

Wonderful idea! I'll be on the lookout for random acts of kindness in my reading and report back. Thank you for starting this challenge!

[Agnieszka]

I finished last night (after you posted this thread) Deadly Dog Days where the MC took in five dogs of a murdered girl.

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

Thank you, everyone, for being excited about this challenge. I look forward to seeing all your posts.

[Gabby]

2 down as far as I can see so add this one and we have 3. Sorry didn’t mean to rhyme just really tired.

Finished Mrs Wobble The Waitress 1/4 and her children made it so she could be a waitress without spilling things on people by buying roller skates to catch what she dropped.

[Shelley]

Currently reading Sidetracked by Diana Harmon Asher. The main character, who is the worst runner on the cross country team, helps a teammate, who is the best runner on the team, finish a race after being injured by a competitor.

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

We've got a good start.

[Moondance]

I finished reading Blood Orange by Susan Wittig Albert. A minor character bakes cookies daily for a neighbor's child who is a latch key kid and comes home to an empty house daily.

[Erin]

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
(view spoiler)[Several townspeople of Kaneq all chip in to send Leni to college - to cover her tuition, books, and even provide spending money. (hide spoiler)]

[Meg]

Vanished in Paradise - MC, who has never had kids, takes on the responsibility for four children when their widowed detective father, who's a family friend of sorts, has to go undercover.

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

I just finished reading The River Knows. The mc offers money and the address to a safe house to a seemingly destitute woman.

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[Erin]

Don Quixote - one of the prostitutes at the inn buys a drink for the squire after the other inn workers beat him up.

[Shelley]

Just started rereading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Yesterday, I got to the part where Peeta gives Katniss bread.

[Tari]

Wendy, the main character, was walking her own dog and when she found a stray, she took it back to the address on its tags Asking Fur Trouble Ally Roberts 4/2/20

[JoAnne]

Finished The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs 4/3/20 4stars

Caroline sets up a group to help women of domestic violence just to give them someplace to go and talk. Her sisters help her in this voluntary endeavor.

[Agnieszka]

Something About You by Julie James 4* 4/3
(view spoiler)[After Jack embarassed her on national television and Cameron's boss (US attorney) wanted him fired from FBI, Cameron fought against it and was able to get it changed it into 3-year disciplinary transfer (from Chicago to Nebraska). (hide spoiler)]

[Agnieszka]

Lanelle wrote: ""

I love this one very much. I hope you don't mind if I 'borrow' it and use as my profile picture.

[Meg]

Crunch Time - MC invites a friend and her wheelchair-bound aunt to stay at her house when their present home is firebombed.

[Gabby]

Wolf Pack's Omega - The men take the MC into their house and give her a job after she runs away from an abusive boyfriend and collapses on their doorstep (before knowing her story).

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

In The Irish Upstart, the hero stops for some sighseeing just so the heroine and her brother can look at an old castle.

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

[Celia]

Just finished The Raven Boys. Gansey never gives up on Ronan and Adam and helps them even when they refuse (Adam) or they don't deserve any more second chances (Ronan)

[JoAnne]

Read Two Seances And A Funeral (Whispering Bay Mystery #5) by Maria Geraci 4/3 20 4stars

Lucy invites Jake, a grungy PI, over for Sunday dinner at her parent's house since he looks like he could use a friend.

[Agnieszka]

I'll finish tonight Saving Shadows by Kathleen Brooks - after Gavin fished out an unconcious Ellery out of the ocean his family and town took her in and provided her with clothing and essentials so she could heal and regain her memory without unnecessary stress

[Gabby]

Christmas Present spent Xmas eve trying to find two people who have been lost in time for 10 years to stop a colleague taking his life. (view spoiler)[ and managing to find them and bring back the love of his life and saving two lives (dumped in a massacre site) in the process (hide spoiler)]

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

A quote from the book I read today, ""Life is short... If I could do it all over again, I'd spend more time helping others."

There was so much helping and good deeds in this book (The Wild Robot), I couldn't count them all.

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

In The Wild Robot Escapes, Coral follows Roz and Brightbill "...in case she could be helpful, and it was a good thing that she did." Coral saved Roz's life because she was where she needed to be.

[JoAnne]

The Money Man (The Consultants #1) by Nancy Herkness 4/5/20 4.5stars

KRG, a huge Manhattan Consulting firm has a Small Business Initiative which is free to be used by small businesses when they need help. Derek especially, but his partners too, don't want to forget their roots.

[Tari]

In this book Dead on the Vine Elle Brooke White 4/4/20, two friends stayed with the main character while she got accustomed to living on the farm she inherited.

[Erin]

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Joshua takes care of Lucy when she’s really sick.

[Gabby]

The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist MC cares for and helps injured birds heal.

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

In Wait Until Midnight, the main character gives some money to a woman in need.

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

[JoAnne]

Winter Arrives: Secrets in the Snow #1 by Roz Marshall 4/5/20 3stars

Mike is looking to ski in Scotland and comes across a small ski school. When he's talking with the owner's wife and finds out that her husband won't be back to open the school and she doesn't have the ski rating she needs to, he steps up even though he had only planned on skiing or being a ski instructor for a short while to make some money. If he hadn't the business would have lost out on the winter ski season.

[Tari]

Christmas in Paradise Kathi Daley 4/5/20 TJ Jensen found out that her littlest sister's birth dad was in town wanting to get to know his daughter. She feared the worst, but once everyone got to know him, it was easy to be kind and hospitable to him and include him in their Christmas together. He was usually on a Navy ship out at sea during Christmas and loved getting to know his little girl just as another honorary uncle.

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

In Truly Yours, Lady Royce offers Amanda a place to live after the death of her step-father.

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[Meg]

Lemonade and Lies - MC has taken a young teen into her home, employed her at her cafe, and helped her get back in school.

[Moondance]

In Dead in the Doorway Whitney and buck offer a job to a young man who is struggling to find his way.

[Moondance]

Several things in To Scotland with Love:

The entire town helps out a single dad with his young son.
Cait provides food for a family that the father was in an accident and lost a leg.
Graham buys Viking sewing machines for the all the ladies in the quilting circle.

[Tari]

Ghost Mortem ReGina Welling 4/7/20

Everly and her friend Jacy went out of their way to be helpful to a neighbor who just lost her husband. The neighbor hadn't been nice to Everly when she moved in, but that was before the husband was murdered.

[MSallyJ]

Angels Club-- a group of Young girls form a club to fight bullying and give to people who need help. All kinds of good deeds and loving kindness to people and animals in this story.---Courtney Vail author.