I Spy - 2022

[Joy D]

Completed Challenge - See Msg 68

Reposting it here:

30/30 - Completed 8/24/22

Primary 25 categories:
✅1. Color - Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys - 1/1/22 - 3* - My Review
✅2. Number - Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky - 1/4/22 - 3* - My Review
✅3. Things That Grow - The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing - 1/13/22 - 4* - My Review
✅4. Seasons - Spring by Ali Smith - 3/22/22 - 4* - My Review
✅5. First Name - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - 1/21/22 - 5* - My Review
✅6. Places - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 2/3/22 - 3* - My Review
✅7. Body Part - The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression by Edward Bullmore - 2/13/22 - 3* - My Review
✅8. Weapon -
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin - 6/30/22 - 4* - My Review
✅9. Body of Water - The Secret River by Kate Grenville - 1/24/22 - 4* - My Review
✅10. Form of Water - House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs - 6/14/22 - 4* - My Review
✅11. Product of Fire - Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - 5/14/22 - 4* - My Review
✅12. Celestial Body - Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton - 6/2/22 - 5* - My Review
✅13. Architecture - The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis - 3/3/22 - 3* - My Review
✅14. Senses - The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater by Matthew A. Rozell - 4/4/22 - 4* - My Review
✅15. Royal Title - The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria by Edmund Richardson - 1/16/22 - 4* - My Review
✅16. Family Member - Learwife: A Novel by J.R. Thorpe - 1/3/22 - 4* - My Review
✅17. Elements - The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah - 5/9/22 - 2* - My Review
✅18. Time of Day - Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman - 3* - My Review
✅19. Metal - gold, bronze, steel - The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing - 6/12/22 - 3* - My Review
✅20. Emotion/Feeling - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe - 4/9/22 - 4* - My Review
✅21. Animal/Insect - A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg - 1/15/22 - 4* - My Review
✅22. Something to Read - Love, Death & Rare Books by Robert Hellenga - 2/10/22 - 4* - My Review
✅23. Sports - The Head Game: Baseball Seen from the Pitcher's Mound by Roger Kahn - 1/31/22 - 4* - My Review
✅24. Paranormal Beings - The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis - 1/20/22 - 1* - My Review
✅25. Occupation: (artist)
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon - 3/17/22 - 3* - My Review

Bonus 5 categories: (after finished reading for all the primary categories):
✅1. Magical beings (from British folklore):
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner - 8/24/22 - 3* - My Review
✅2. Inspirational people - Toni Morrison writes of Martin Luther King Jr and James Baldwin, and I find her inspirational as well.
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison - 7/8/22 - 3* - My Review
✅3. Mental Health - depression, therapy, anxiety
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason - 7/1/22 - 3* - My Review
✅4. Subjects - Biology, Psychology, Chemistry
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs by Marc Lewis - 8/11/22 - 4* - My Review
✅5. Monthly themes of the 2022 Reading Challenge (July’s monthly theme of Red - cover is mostly red)
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett -7/6/22 - 4* - My Review

[Echo]

Message 66 updated: 23 of 25 completed! So close to unlocking the bonus challenge!!

[Ashley]

update message #48
28/30

[Sally]

Update msg 127
22/25

[Ursula]

update to message 7: 18/25 books read

[Veronica]

Update to Message #98: 10/20

[Hilary]

20. Emotion The Beloved Girls Harriet Evans

18 read update to #602

[Echo]

Message 66 updated: 24 of 25 completed, almost unlocked the bonus!

[Eggp]

August update: message #41
Goal: 19/25, 76.00%

10. Form of Water: The Freeze-Frame Revolution - 02 Aug 2022, 4/5
24. Paranormal Beings: The Engines of God - 13 Aug 2022, 3/5

[Martha☀]

update to message #20

13/25

[Greg]

Update message 65:

8. Weapon - knife, poison, arrow: Tripwire

16/20

[Alison]

update to message #131

I have completed my Bonus Categories therefore I have completed the Challenge!! Thank You, Trisha, for leading this Great Challenge!!
25/25 books read + 5/5 Bonus books read

Bonus Categories:
√ 1. Magical beings - Elvish
√ 2. Inspirational people - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
√ 3. Mental Health - Anxious People
√ 4. Subjects - Force of Nature
√ 5. Monthly themes of the 2022 Reading Challenge - The Redbreast (July's theme of 'Red')

[Ursula]

update to message 7: 19/25 books read

[Tahreem]

Update Message 225: 16/25 read

[Sally]

Update msg 127
23/25

[Rosemary]

Message #26 updated - 12/15 books read #2 One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

[Megan BG]

message 67

12/20

9. Body of Water: The House Across the Lake
15. Royal Title: Prince Caspian

[Darinda]

updated message 38

completed 6/25

[Ashleigh]

Update to #25

19/12

Architecture - Temple of the Winds

[Echo]

Message 66 updated: Completed the first 25 and started in on the bonus 5!

So 26/30 completed!

[Emily]

Update to message #51

Progress 15/25

I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon for #18 - time of day

[Echo]

Message 66 updated: 27 of 30 completed

[Trisha]

Congratulation to Echo & Rachael for completing their primary prompts!

Huge round of applause for Joy D & Alison for sherlocking their way through all the 30 prompts!

Progress updated through here.

[Tania]

Update to message 37, complete with 25/25 as of 9/12/2022

[Sally]

Update msg 127
24/25

[Hilary]

17. Element Fire LC Tyler

19 read update to #620

[Ursula]

update to message 7: 20/25 books read

[Greg]

Update to message 65:

6. Places - country, empire, London:
The Lost Island

17/20

[Darinda]

update message 38

completed 8/25

[TEE]

Please update Msg 199
20 / 25

Family Member - Daughter
Animal - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

[Lilili]

Update to message 480

16/25

[Laureen]

Update to Message #47:

#1: Color: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
#4 Seasons: When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson (ok - this one is a bit of a stretch - when do the Apricots Bloom? In Spring! I'm going for it)

23/25

[Sally]

Update msg 127

25 main prompts done

1/5 bonus prompts read

[Mary]

going to try
.I SPY CHALLENGE
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Signing up for all 25 categories

1. Colour:
2. Number:
3. Things that grow:
4. Seasons:
5. Product of fire:
6. Animal/insect:
7. Paranormal beings:
8. Metal:
9. Time of day:
10. Emotion/feeling:
11. Weapon:
12. Form of water:
13. Body of water:
14 First name:
15. Body part

[Mary]

I am late..

SPY CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Primary 25 categories with examples:
1. Color - red, crimson, indigo
2. Number - one, twice, third
3. Things That Grow - tree, rose, garden
4. Seasons - spring, fall, autumn
5. First Name - Jacqueline, Robert, Tanya
6. Places - country, empire, London
7. Body Part - hand, bone, mind
8. Weapon - knife, poison, arrow
9. Body of Water - sea, river, pond
10. Form of Water - ice, mist, rain
11. Product of Fire - heat, ash, flames
12. Celestial Body - sun, star, planet
13. Architecture - castle, bridge, house
14. Senses - sight, touch, taste
15. Royal Title - king, duke, emperor
16. Family Member - brother, aunt, parent
17. Elements - fire, wind, air
18. Time of Day - morning, dusk, evening
19. Metal - gold, bronze, steel
20. Emotion/Feeling - love, fear, pride
21. Animal/Insect - dog, tiger, grasshopper
22. Something to Read - book, story, newspaper
23. Sports - baseball, basketball, football
24. Paranormal Beings - vampire, angel, ghost
25. Occupation - doctor, assassin, detective

[Eggp]

September update: message #41
Goal: 21/25, 84.00%

11. Product of Fire: Light in August - 01 Sep 2022, 3/5
19. Metal: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side - 30 Sep 2022, 3/5

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 6. 15/12

[Allie]

Update to Message #61

Progress 25/25
23. Sports - baseball, basketball, football My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan

BONUS
Progress 1/5
3. Mental Health - depression, therapy, anxiety Code Name Verity

[Mary]

I SPY CHALLENGE
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Signing up for all 25 categories plus bonus! :)


Primary 25 categories with examples:
1. Color - red, crimson, indigo

2. Number - one, twice, third
3. Things That Grow - tree, rose, garden
4. Seasons - spring, fall, autumn
5. First Name - Jacqueline, Robert, Tanya
6. Places - country, empire, London
7. Body Part - hand, bone, mind
8. Weapon - knife, poison, arrow
9. Body of Water - sea, river, pond
10. Form of Water - ice, mist, rain
11. Product of Fire - heat, ash, flames
12. Celestial Body - sun, star, planet
13. Architecture - castle, bridge, house
14. Senses - sight, touch, taste
15. Royal Title - king, duke, emperor
16. Family Member - brother, aunt, parent
17. Elements - fire, wind, air
18. Time of Day - morning, dusk, evening
19. Metal - gold, bronze, steel
20. Emotion/Feeling - love, fear, pride
21. Animal/Insect - dog, tiger, grasshopper
22. Something to Read - book, story, newspaper
23. Sports - baseball, basketball, football
24. Paranormal Beings - vampire, angel, ghost
25. Occupation - doctor, assassin, detective

Bonus 5 categories with examples (only open for members who have finished reading for all the primary categories):
1. Magical beings - witches, wizards, elves
2. Inspirational people - Mandela, Gandhi, Obama
3. Mental Health - depression, therapy, anxiety
4. Subjects - Biology, Psychology, Chemistry
5. Monthly themes of the 2022 Reading Challenge trying for 25

[Jennifer]

I hit a pretty major reading slump this summer and I'm trying to pull out of it now. I haven't updated these boards in a long time, so...

updating message #43

20/30 completed

5. First Name - Emma DONE

6. Places - The Island of Sea Women DONE

14. Senses - Nothing to See Here DONE

21. Animal/Insect - The Murmur of Bees DONE

23. Sports - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype DONE

24. Paranormal Beings -The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World DONE

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to Message #10 - 25/25 read - COMPLETED!

[Laureen]

Update to Message #27:
#11: Product of Fire: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

24/25

[Laureen]

Update to #47:
#11: Product of Fire: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

24/25

[Laureen]

Update to Message #29:

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay. (451 pages)

19,574/25,000

[Kristina]

Update to message 96! I took on the additional 5 bonus categories, raising my goal to 30 books. And my current count is 28/30 books.

[Ursula]

update to message 7: 23/25 books read! Almost there!

[Emily]

Update to message #51

Progress 16/25

I read The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick for #1 - color

[AJ]

Update to #548

13/25

13. Architecture - castle, bridge, house: Station Eleven A station is a physical place full of possibility!

[Lilili]

Updating message 480

17/25

[Sally]

Update msg 127

25/25
2/5