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Book: Rasputin's Shadow
Author: Raymond Khoury
Date Read: 02 July 2020
Task: A book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode Choice: S3E7: The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face
My Thread
Book: Rasputin's Shadow
Author: Raymond Khoury
Date Read: 02 July 2020
Task: A book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode Choice: S3E7: The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face
My Thread

Thread: ~Melissa~ and Velma Solve a Mystery
Author: Nora Roberts
Book: Hot Rocks

Date Read: 7/2/20 4 stars
Task: 3. a book where the MC lives alone
How it Fits: MC Laine Tavish lives alone
Next Episode Choice: S2 1. Nowhere to Hyde

Episode: S2: 6. A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Task: Read a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Book: Devoted in Death
How it Fits: there is a masked ball in the story
Date Read: 07.02 ★★★★
Next Episode Choice: S2: 3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper

Task: 1. listen to an audio book
Book: The Preacher
Author: Camilla Läckberg
Date: 7/2/20
How it fits: Listened to the audiobook
Next Episode Choice: 12. Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper

Author: Penny Lam
Book: The Stabled Trilogy: A Dark Romance
Date Read: 7/3/2020
Task: a book with an Antonio, Anthony, Tony or Toni in the story
How it Fits: Tony character (Ex-boyfriend of the heroine and villain)
Next Episode Choice: Season 3, Episode 12. Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper

Author: Piper Scott
Book: Swallow
Date Read: finished 7/1/2020
Task: "4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book"
How it Fits: p4 - "The newly christened Walter's eyes dilated and he stilled to such an extent that he resembled a statue."
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 7


Mamacita & Scoob Solved It!
Task ~ 3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper
Book ~ Savage Rising 4* ✔️ 6/30
Author ~ Katie Reus
Pages ~ 271 pages
Book Qualifications ~ #4. MC has a nickname of Savage which is actually his last name not 1st name
Next Episode Choice: #14. Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear

Book: Library of Souls
Author: Ransom Riggs
Date Read: 7/4/20
Task: Read a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
How it Fits: Page 15: "The hollow tilted its head like a curious dog but was otherwise a statue."
Next Episode Choice: Season 2 Episode 7: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?

Book: Witch Hunt
Author: Cate Conte
Date Read: 7/3/20
Task: (it fits two tasks) 1. a book set in a New England state: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut
2. a book with a witch in it
How it Fits: 1. Set in Connecticut 2. Vi, her sister and mother Fiona (and a bunch of others) are witches
Next Episode Choice: 5. The Tar Monster

Thread: ~Melissa~ and Velma Solve a Mystery
Author: Cole McCade
Book: Where There’s Smoke

Date Read: 7/4/20 4 stars
Task: 4. a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book
How it Fits: pg 61 That f*cking ghost of a smile.
Next Episode Choice: 2. Mystery Mask Mix-Up

COMPLETION POST

Book: The Carnival Keepers - Amber Gulley
Date Read: 7/3
Task: a historical book
How it Fits: MPG historical fiction
Next Episode Choice: A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts

Season 2: 6 - A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Author: Paul Thomas Murphy
Book: Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England
Date Read: 4th july
Task: 3, 4, 5
How it Fits: true crime (who done it), character named John (John Huddleston - prosecutor, John Mulvany - witness), 'statue' in the text of the book: https://books.google.si/books?redir_e...
Next Episode Choice: Season 3: 3 - A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright

Book: Paradise
Author: Judith McNaught
Date Read: 7/4/20
Task: 4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
How it Fits: ”He looked like a stone statue…” pg. 675
Next Episode Choice: Season 2 - Episode 7: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Author: Leslie Budewitz
Book: Chai Another Day
Date read: 07.03.20 3 stars
Task 5: a book with mystery on the book’s main page
How it fits: Tagged 19 times as mystery.
Next: Season 1 Episode 15
Go Away Ghost Ship

Author: Yiichi
Book: Shutterbug
Date Read: finished 6/24/2020
Task: "2. a book with 'wolf' in the text of the book" and "4. a book that someone else has abandoned (DNF)"
How it Fits: p22 - "He knew full well that he was only intrigued by this specific individual because of his wolf." and someone DNFed the book
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 8

Author: Ellery Adams
Book: Murder in the Storybook Cottage
Date Read: 7/5/20
Task: 4. a book with a shadow on the cover
How it Fits: shadow in the doorway.

If the shadow isn't distinct enough, the book also fulfills task 5,
with Mystery is the 1st genre listed
Next Episode Choice: That's Snow Ghost

Task: 5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Book: The Shore Road Mystery
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Date: 7/4/20
How it fits: Mystery MPG
Next Episode Choice: 13. A Menace in Venice
Completion Post:
Book: Ninth House
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Date Read: 03 July 2020
Task: A book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode Choice: S2E1: Nowhere to Hyde
My Thread
Book: Ninth House
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Date Read: 03 July 2020
Task: A book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode Choice: S2E1: Nowhere to Hyde
My Thread

Season 2, #4 "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright"
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Book: Ask Me If I Care
Date Read: July 5, 2020
Task: 4. a book with the letters of 'ICE' in the title
How it Fits: Ask Me If I Care
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, #5 "Haunted House Hang-Up" please
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Author: Amy Lane
Book: Christmas Kitsch
Date Read: finished 7/3/2020
Task: "1. a book with a teen-aged MC", "2. a book where the MC watches TV", and "3. a book where the MC uses a candle"
How it Fits: teen-aged MCs, specifically on p1 - "I mean, I had brown eyes and blond hair, and I was the closest thing to an ethnic minority our high school had ever seen.", MCs watched TV, specifically on p164 - "We watched TV and listened to them bitch about their love lives until one in the morning, and then they hauled my old sleeping bag out of my closet (it’d been in my boxes of stuff) and crashed on my futon, using their sweaters as pillows.", and MC uses a candle, specifically on p188 - "That night, when the bed was set up and made, Oliver lit candles for the kitchen table, and we ate homemade pizza and sparkling cider and exchanged gifts."
Next Episode Choice: Season 3, Episode 1

Season 1, Episode 7
Player: Thread
Task: 5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Book: A Good Man Gone
Author: A.W. Hartoin
Pages: 302
Read: 06/30/2020
Fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode: Season 1, Episode 8

Thread: ~Melissa~ and Velma Solve a Mystery
Author: J.D. Robb
Book: Big Jack

Date Read: 7/5/20 4 stars
Task: 5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode Choice: S2 3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper

Book: Left Fur Dead
Date read: 07/05/2020 3 stars
Task 5: Mystery on book's main page
How it fits: Tagged as mystery 19 times main page
Next Episode: Mind your own Business

Author: Annie England Noblin
Book: St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets
Date Read: 07.05.20 5 stars
Task 4: a book where the MC reads a book
How it fits: Mae reads a book by a local reclusive author to better understand him
Next: Season 1 Episode 16
A Night of Fright is No Delight

COMPLETION POST

Book: The Winner's Curse - Marie Rutkoski
Date Read: 7/5
Task: a book with a significant character who is nobility
How it Fits: MC is part of the ruling class
Next Episode Choice: What the Hex Going On?


Mamacita & Scoob Solved It!
Task ~ 14. Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear
Book ~ Dangerous Witness 4* ✔️ 7/4
Author ~ Katie Reus
Pages ~ 250 pages
Book Qualifications ~ #1. set in a place with two words city 2 words, state, 2 words.
set in Redemption Harbor, South Carolina.
Next Episode Choice: #3. Hassle in the Castle

Book: The Tutor's Daughter
Date Read: 7-5-20
Task: 2. a book with a building on the cover
How it Fits: Manor on the cover
Next Episode Choice: 12. Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper

Book: Girls of Storm and Shadow
Author: Natasha Ngan
Date Read: 7/6/20
Task: 2. a book with 'wolf' in the text of the book
How it Fits: ”But yes, our Wolf lives.” pg. 29
Next Episode Choice: Season 2 - Episode 8: Don’t Fool With a Phantom

Steph Ann Thread
Author: Jennifer Estep
Title: Crush the King
Date Read: 7/6/20
Task: A book someone else did not finish (DNF)
How it fits: Tagged DNF by one person
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 11, A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts

Book: The Sentence is Death
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Date Read: 7/6/20
Task: Read a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode Choice: Season 2 Episode 8: Don't Fool with a Phantom

Task: 5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Book: Old Bones
Author: Aaron Elkins
Date: 7/5/20
How it fits: Mystery MPG
Next Episode Choice: 14. Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear

Sunshine✰✰✰ and Scooby-Doo Solve a Mystery
Book: Ostrich and the 'Roo by Eve Langlais 7/5/20
Task: book with an author whose last name starts with 'B', 'L', 'A', 'C", or 'K'
How it Fits: Author's last name starts with L
Next Episode Choice: 7. Never Ape an Ape Man

Completed Episode: 11. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
Book: A Merciful Fate
Author: Kendra Elliot
Date Read: 7/2/20
Task: 5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode Choice: 12. Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too


Mamacita & Scoob Solved It!
Task ~ 3. Hassle in the Castle
Book ~ Echoes at Dawn 3* ✔️ 7/6
Author ~ Maya Banks
Pages ~ 336 pages
Book Qualifications ~ #4. a book someone else did not finish (DNF)
7 people tagged dnf
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Next Episode Choice: #2. Mystery Mask Mix-Up

Episode: S2: 3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper
Task: Read a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Book: A Bad Day for Sunshine
How it Fits: mpg mystery
Date Read: 07.06 ★★★★
Next Episode Choice: S3: 4. To Switch a Witch

Author: Dianne Harman
Date Read: 7/5/2020
Task: A Book Set in the Desert
How it Fits:Takes place in High Desert, Ca.
Next Episode Choice: Decoy for a Dognapper

Book:

Author: Louise Penny
Date Read: 07/06
Task: a book with something made of stone on the cover
How it Fits: stone steps
Next Episode Choice: A Menace in Venice

Task: 5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Book: Speedy Death
Author: Gladys Mitchell
Date: 7/7/20
How it fits: Mystery MPG
Next Episode Choice: 15. The Warlock of Wimbledon

Book: Murder at the Snowed Inn
Author: Imogene Plimp
Date Read: 7/7/20
Task: 3. a book with a title that spells 'monster'
How it Fits: All the letters for monster are found in the 5 title words
Next Episode Choice: 6. A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing

My Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Episode: 5. The Tar Monster
Book: Theft of Swords
Author: Michael J. Sullivan
Date Read: 7/5
Task: 1. a book with a very old character in it
How it Fits: Esrahadden is over 900 years old.
Next Episode Choice: Season 3: 6. A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
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Book: Dead End
Date Read: 7-2-20
Task: 5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: Book has a MPG of Mystery
Next Episode Choice: 11. The Diabolical Disc Demon