2025 Reading Challenge discussion
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I Spy - 2022

22/30 completed!
1. Color -
2. Number - 56 Days
3. Things That Grow - The Bungalow Mystery
4. Seasons -
5. First Name - Take Your Turn, Teddy
6. Places - The Resting Place
7. Body Part - The Paying Guests
8. Weapon -
9. Body of Water - The Girls in the Stilt House
10. Form of Water - Did I Say You Could Go
11. Product of Fire - The Clue in the Diary
12. Celestial Body - The Awakening
13. Architecture - The Night She Disappeared
14. Senses - The Stranger in the Mirror
15. Royal Title - Queenie
16. Family Member - Redeeming Love
17. Elements -
18. Time of Day - Nice Girls
19. Metal - American Dirt
20. Emotion/Feeling - Playing Nice
21. Animal/Insect - The Big Book of Exit Strategies
22. Something to Read - Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
23. Sports -
24. Paranormal Beings -
25. Occupation - The X Ingredient
1. Magical beings - A Letter to Three Witches
2. Inspirational people -
3. Mental Health - Love & Other Anxieties
4. Subjects - The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
5. Monthly themes of the 2022 Reading Challenge -

20. Emotion/Feeling - love, fear, pride: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (3/29/22)
14/25

Goal: 10/25, 40.00%
21. Animal/Insect: Dogs of War - 06 Mar 2022, 4/5
12. Celestial Body: The Sun Also Rises - 16 Mar 2022, 4/5
09. Body of Water: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology - 23 Mar 2022, 3/5

Progress: 25/25 Primary categories
2/5 Bonus categories
√2. Inspirational people - Julius Caesar, Cicero, Marcus Antonius, Publius Sestius - Rome's End (A Lucius Sestius Mystery, #1) - Fiona Forsyth

√5. Monthly themes of the 2022 Reading Challenge - March Monthly Theme - A Few of My Favorite Things: Brown paper packages tied up with strings - Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover. - Detection Detail (Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit, #1) - Terri Reed


18/25 books read
1. Color - Get a Life, Chloe Brown
3. Things that grow - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
6. Places - Murder at Kensington Palace
9. Body of Water - The Island of Sea Women
10. Form of Water - The Scent of Rain and Lightning
11. Product of Fire - Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
13. Architecture - House of Sky and Breath
15. Royal Title - Murder at Queen's Landing
16. Family Member - The Guncle
17. Elements - Cold Wind
18. Time of Day - One Night on the Island
20. Emotion or Feeling - From Lukov with Love
25. Occupation - The Coroner's Lunch

7/30 completed
12. Celestial Body - The Prettiest Star DONE
15. Royal Title - The Return of the King DONE
Bonus
1. Magical beings - The Two Towers DONE

5/25
16. Family Member - brother, aunt, parent: American Bastard Bastard is a family member to many folks, though the term is supposed to highlight the father/parentless origins.

#24 Paranormal Being: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
I am counting this one because the Bear in the story is actually a paranormal creature
15/25

5. First Name - Alice Teale is Missing
25. Occupation - The Eighth Detective

Progress 18/30
16. Family Member - brother, aunt, parent The Time Traveler's Wife

9/25
3. Things That Grow - tree, rose, garden

21. Animal/Insect - dog, tiger, grasshopper


8/25
1. Color - red, crimson, indigo -

2. Number - one, twice, third -

6. Places - country, empire, London -

25. Occupation - doctor, assassin, detective -


6/25
3. Things That Grow - tree, rose, garden: Apples Never Fall Apples grow (and have grown on me recently).

8/30 completed
Bonus
4. Subjects - Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science DONE
DURATION: 4/15-07/31/22 📚 COMPLETED: 25/25
✅Color. Miss Frost Saves The Sandman. Cover: Blue. 4/28.
✅Number. Bundle of Trouble. Cover: Two. 5/8.
✅Things That Grow. Miss Frost Says I Do. Cover: Flowers. 4/30.
✅Seasons. Chance of a Ghost. Cover: Winter. 4/5.
✅First Name. Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case. Cover: Jayne. 4/25.
✅Places. Miss Frost Chills The Cheater. Cover: North Pole. 4/30.
✅Body Part. How to Date Your Dragon. Cover: Eye. 5/14.
✅Weapon. Arsenic and Adobo. Cover: Poison. 4/21.
✅Body of Water. A Deadly Chapter: A Castle Bookshop Mystery. 4/23.
✅Form of Water. Word: Ice. Miss Frost Ices The Imp: A Nocturne Falls Mystery. Cover: Sea. 4/27.
✅Product of Fire. One Poison Pie. Cover: Flames. 6/18.
✅Celestial Body. These Broken Stars. Word: Stars. 6/19.
✅Architecture. When Birdie Babysat Spider. Cover: Store. 4/28.
✅Senses. Homicide and Halo-Halo. Cover: Taste. 4/22.
✅Royal Title. The Windsor Knot. Cover: Queen. 7/13.
✅Family Member. Motherhood is Murder. Word: Mother. 5/9.
✅Elements. Ghost in the Wind. Word: Wind. 5/6.
✅Time of Day. Let Sleeping Witches Lie. Cover: Evening. 4/16.
✅Metal. Murder on Cape Cod. Cover: Steel. 7/21.
✅Feeling. Miss Frost Cracks A Caper. Cover: Love. 4/28.
✅Animal. Stalked by Shadows. Cover: Cat. 4/25.
✅Something to Read. Trouble on the Books. Cover: Book. 4/17.
✅Sports. Ice Breakers. Cover: Hockey. 7/31.
✅Paranormal Beings. Undead and Unwed. Cover: Vampire. 4/15.
✅Occupation. Inspector Specter. Word: Inspector. 5/6.
✅Color. Miss Frost Saves The Sandman. Cover: Blue. 4/28.
✅Number. Bundle of Trouble. Cover: Two. 5/8.
✅Things That Grow. Miss Frost Says I Do. Cover: Flowers. 4/30.
✅Seasons. Chance of a Ghost. Cover: Winter. 4/5.
✅First Name. Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case. Cover: Jayne. 4/25.
✅Places. Miss Frost Chills The Cheater. Cover: North Pole. 4/30.
✅Body Part. How to Date Your Dragon. Cover: Eye. 5/14.
✅Weapon. Arsenic and Adobo. Cover: Poison. 4/21.
✅Body of Water. A Deadly Chapter: A Castle Bookshop Mystery. 4/23.
✅Form of Water. Word: Ice. Miss Frost Ices The Imp: A Nocturne Falls Mystery. Cover: Sea. 4/27.
✅Product of Fire. One Poison Pie. Cover: Flames. 6/18.
✅Celestial Body. These Broken Stars. Word: Stars. 6/19.
✅Architecture. When Birdie Babysat Spider. Cover: Store. 4/28.
✅Senses. Homicide and Halo-Halo. Cover: Taste. 4/22.
✅Royal Title. The Windsor Knot. Cover: Queen. 7/13.
✅Family Member. Motherhood is Murder. Word: Mother. 5/9.
✅Elements. Ghost in the Wind. Word: Wind. 5/6.
✅Time of Day. Let Sleeping Witches Lie. Cover: Evening. 4/16.
✅Metal. Murder on Cape Cod. Cover: Steel. 7/21.
✅Feeling. Miss Frost Cracks A Caper. Cover: Love. 4/28.
✅Animal. Stalked by Shadows. Cover: Cat. 4/25.
✅Something to Read. Trouble on the Books. Cover: Book. 4/17.
✅Sports. Ice Breakers. Cover: Hockey. 7/31.
✅Paranormal Beings. Undead and Unwed. Cover: Vampire. 4/15.
✅Occupation. Inspector Specter. Word: Inspector. 5/6.
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