June - Brain Power

[Audrey]

Update to message 8:
Cerebellum:
3. Read a book that involves a character that searches for balance - Spark Joy
Progress: 8/8 complete!

[MeganWritesAndCrafts]

Megan wrote: "Hi Sunny! I will go for 6 :)
Update 3/6 Complete

#1 The Dark Prophecy
* Listen to an Audio Book


#2 Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
* Read a book set in a school, col..."

Update to Msg 43 - 3/6 completed

[L Y N N]

Update to message #23:
4/4 as of June 20
DONE!

[Nedge]

Update to message #4:
15/8 as of 23 June

[Karin]

Updated message #29

8/8

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message 19.
Progress: 23/12

Complete and then some. Thanks, Sunny, for getting our brains going with this fun challenge. Hercule Poirot would be proud of how well we've used our "little grey cells."

[Sunny]

TerryJane wrote: "Update to Message 19.
Progress: 23/12

Complete and then some. Thanks, Sunny, for getting our brains going with this fun challenge. Hercule Poirot would be proud of how well we've used our "little ..."

Indeed, Poirot would! LOL

1 more would have given you a double!

[Bray]

Please Update Message 10 :)
5/5

Cerebrum:
* An emotion/sense in title Book: Deadly Fear
* Set in a school/college/university Book: Until Friday Night
* Translated into >3 different languages Book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
* A character who is blind/vision impaired
* Audiobook

Cerebellum:
* Characters take part in sport/activity Book: The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
* Fewer than 200 pages
* Involves a character that searches for balance (in any aspect of life) Book: The Midnight Library
* Low on TBR list

Brainstem:
* Makes your heart race
* A temperature related word/image on cover/in title
* Connects to any of our 2021 monthly or quarterly themes

[Sunny]

I consider a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. – Sherlock Holmes A Study In Scarlet

We have 6 days remaining!
Where did the time go?!

Hope you all are enjoying your reading. Please remember to make a post, letting me know how many books you have read. I'm looking forward to seeing the updates as they come in.

✨Carmen, Carri, Rachael, Audrey, Lynn, Nedge, Karin, TerryJane, Bradi:
Congratulations! on completing the challenge!✨

I have updated thru Msg #108

Next Thursday is July 1st the day I'll make my next update.
If needed I will do a follow-up update July the 8th.

Happy reading everyone!

🎈👒We are all amazing!🎩 🎈

The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, right from the moment you are born, until you fall in love -- Unknown

[Megan]

Update to message #28 with 1 book read (and 5 days left to read the other two...)

For the Cerebellum prompt of a book under 200 pages

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

[Michelle]

Updated message #7: 2/3

* Read a book with an emotion or sense in the title: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

* Read a book that makes your heart race (for any reason): How to Save a Life

[Amy]

Updated message 6-- 4/5

[Sarah]

Message 27 Updated

2/2-COMPLETED

[Amy]

Updated message 5-- 5/5 Challenge Complete!

[Alyana]

Update to message 32
Progress: 3/3

* Listen to an audiobook
--> Yes Please - read on 06/01/21

* Read a book that makes your heart race (for any reason)
--> Triptych - read on 06/26/21

* Read a book with an emotion or sense in the title
--> Every Last Fear - read on 06/16/21

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 13. Progress: 4/4

[Megan]

Update to message 28

2/3 read with my response for Cerebrum -- Book with a Sense or Emotion

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

[Alison]

update to message #21...sorry for this late update, Sunny! Thank You for being a great leader! :D
**Challenge Complete!**

7/7 books read

Cerebrum
√ * Read a book set in a school, college or university - Well-Schooled in Murder
√ * Read a book that has been translated into more than 3 different languages - The Housekeeper and the Professor
√ * Listen to an audiobook - The Devil and the Dark Water

Cerebellum
√ * Read a book where characters take part in a sport/activity that gets their muscles moving - Here With Me...main character runs/yoga/mixed martial arts
√ * Read a little book that has fewer than 200 pages - Twelfth Night, or What You Will...the version I read had 92 pages
√ * Read a book that has been low on your TBR list - Burial Rites

The Brainstem
√ * Read a book that makes your heart race (for any reason) - Song of Susannah

[Marleen]

Update to message 3: 3/3, challenge completed.

✅* Read a little book that has fewer than 200 pages ➡️ Book Love

Thanks Sunny!

[Megan]

Update to message #28

With about four hours left in the month, I finished booked 3/3.

For Brainstem, I read a book with a temperature-related word in the title/cover

The Weight of Snow by Christian Guay-Poliquin (We're in the middle of a heat wave and I'm shivering just thinking about it.)

[Sunny]

We have reached the end of another amazing challenge. The time sure went by in a hurry!

✨Amy, Sarah, Alyana, Theresa, Megan, Alison, Marleen:
Congratulations! on completing the challenge!✨

We had 36 sign up.
29 reported in as reading
20 Completed their goal
Of the 211 books that were pledged 149 of them were read.

Thanks to everyone who used their brain power and participated in this fun challenge. I enjoyed keeping up with your efforts. Hope all of you have a good rest of the year in completing any challenge you choose to take.

🎈👒We are all amazing!🎩 🎈

The brain is the muscle that can move the world. – Stephen King

[Allie]

Update to Message #12
Progress 4/3
Prompt
Cerebrum
* Read a book that has been translated into more than 3 different languages The Moonstone
* Listen to an audiobook House of Correction
Cerebellum
* Read a little book that has fewer than 200 pages If Beale Street Could Talk
Brainstem
* Read a book that makes your heart race (for any reason) Butterfly Kills

[[deleted user]]

Update message 9
7/4 challenge completed. Sorry for the late update!

[Nicole]

Update to Msg. 36:

7/10

Fell a bit behind, but good enough!

[Michelle]

Update message #7 I read 3 out of 3!

Read a little book that has fewer than 200 pages
Queer Virtue

[Sunny]

Final Update:

✨Allie, Regina, Michelle: Congratulations! on completing the challenge!✨

We had 36 sign up.
31 reported in as reading
23 Completed their goal
Of the 211 books that were pledged 165 of them were read.