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Laurel Kristick | 874 comments The Phrases:
1. autumn
2. fall
3. foliage
4. cooler weather
5. Halloween
6. scarf
7. harvest
8. pumpkin spice
9. orange
10. hot chocolate
11. spooky season
12. schooltime

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)


message 2: by Laurel (last edited Oct 31, 2021 07:24PM) (new)

Laurel Kristick | 874 comments Round 1: Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)

1. autumn - Raining Men and Corpses by Anne R. Tan

3. foliage - The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff
4. cooler weather - The Hour of Her Death by Rebecca Rane
5. Halloween - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
6. scarf - Coyote's Regret by Rich Curtin

8. pumpkin spice - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

11. spooky season - Literally Dead by Eryn Scott
12. schooltime - Citizen Pain by Elise Sax


message 3: by Laurel (last edited Oct 05, 2021 03:21PM) (new)

Laurel Kristick | 874 comments Completed Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)

1. autumn - A Merry Murder at St. Bernard Cabins by Cindy Bell
2. fall - The Angel of an Astronomer by Linda Rae Sande
3. foliage - Inferno by Dante Alighieri
4. cooler weather - Overnight Sensation by Sarina Bowen
5. Halloween - The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
6. scarf - Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet by Lucy Score
7. harvest - The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
8. pumpkin spice - Paradise by Dante Alighieri
9. orange - Ridorkulous by Mary Frame
10. hot chocolate - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
11. spooky season - The Spinster's Fortune by Mary Kendall
12. schooltime - Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson


message 4: by Laurel (last edited Oct 28, 2021 11:18PM) (new)

Laurel Kristick | 874 comments Round 3: Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)

4. cooler weather - Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

6. scarf - Fanny Bower Puts Herself Out There by Julia Ariss
Fanny Bower Puts Herself Out There by Julia Ariss
7. harvest - The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen
The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen


message 5: by Laurel (last edited Oct 14, 2021 03:35PM) (new)

Laurel Kristick | 874 comments Round 4: Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)

1. autumn - Sure Shot by Sarina Bowen - page 135, "As autumn drags on"
2. fall - Love, Comment, Subscribe by Cathy Yardley - page 253, "a nice long vacation before fall semester starts up again"
3. foliage - Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri - page 44, "The foliage of the trees was not green"

5. Halloween - 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson - page 35, "or to make her elaborate Halloween costumes"
6. scarf - A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli - page 31, "soft material of a Kashmiri scarf I definitely shouldn't need in hot and humid Mumbai."
7. harvest - Demeter West and the Absent Presence: Mystic Match Mysteries #2 by Marta Ferguson - chapter 2, "some kind of harvest feast."

9. orange - Superfan by Sarina Bowen - page 152, "of well-pruned fruit trees -- oranges, maybe?"
10. hot chocolate - Literally Dead by Eryn Scott - page 53, "a thermos of half coffee, half hot chocolate."


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