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Fill up your concession stand with junk food and sweets!
(Just a note: this goes against my typical eating habits since I refrain from consuming sweets and junk food! But I'm calling up my "inner child" to help! LOL)
Build your menu by reading books that fit the prompts. Repeat a prompt as many times as you want, combine prompts to your hearts content. Your menu has 4 flavors of soda and no food? It's called having a specialty. Your menu only serves lemonade poured over ice cream 'popcorn'? That's patent pending and it costs $30 for a small. This a concession stand: you have a captive audience who has had all good sense Tilt-A-Whirl-ed right out of them. That helps! 👍😂
I'll aim for 5!
10/10 as of May 29!
🌼Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
The Magic in Changing Your Stars by Leah Henderson
2020
May 23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Alex Cross (Alex Cross #12) by James Patterson
May 28 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼Soda: book that is part of a series
The Egypt Game (Game #1) by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
May 21 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
#46 A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
May 25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover

May 24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
May 28 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼French fries: book from your favorite genre
NONFICTION
The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
May 22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼Nachos: book with more than one author
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton
May 24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼Popcorn: book with a rural setting
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers
May 29 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌼Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
The Poppy War (Poppy War #1) by R.F. Kuang
May 22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Menu:
🍕Cheese Pizza
🍕Canadian Pizza
🍕Ham and Pineapple Pizza
🥤Old Fashioned Root Beer
🥤Pop: Cocoa Cola products
🍦Milkshake
🍟French Fries
🍟Poutine
🍟Onion Rings
🍔Cheese Burger
🍔Mushroom Swiss Burger
🥑Fully Loaded Nachos
🍩Deep Fried Oreos
Books read:
✅✅Hot dog/Cheese Burger: book published within the last 2 years
Talking to Canadians - May 26th
Borders - May 28th
✅
Only in Saskatchewan: Recipes and Stories from the Province’s Best-Loved Eateries - May 27th
✅✅
Spy x Family, Vol. 1 - May 22nd
Blood Bound - May 29th
✅✅✅Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Clap When You Land - May 21st (Latin American author, top YA, NPR list, MC's name starts with Y)
The Cellist of Sarajevo - May 26th (Historical fiction)
Nightflyers - May 28th (Woman in STEM, Old book, under 220 pages, Here there be dragons)
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
✅Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
Cry Wolf - May 24th
✅✅✅French fries: book from your favorite genre
A Spindle Splintered - May 23rd
Book of Night - May 23rd
Hunting Ground - May 28th
✅Nachos: book with more than one author
Homecoming - May 28th
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages

Menu
🍕 PIZZA: The Cartographers
🌭HOT DOG: Goldenrod: Poems
🥨BIG PRETZEL: Moonflower Murders
🍩FUNNEL CAKE: One Italian Summer
🍋LEMONADE: Memories from Limón
🍦ICE CREAM CONE: Clap When You Land
🌮NACHOS: Winter in Sokcho
🥤SODA: Every Heart a Doorway
Options ✔ - finished
✔Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Goldenrod: Poems (2021)
✔Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
One Italian Summer
✔Soda: book that is part of a series
Every Heart a Doorway
✔Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
The Cartographers (#40 A book related to one of the 22 Major Arcana cards - The Moon)
✔Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Memories from Limón
✔Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
Clap When You Land
French fries: book from your favorite genre
The Unfinished Clue (mystery)
✔Nachos: book with more than one author
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin; translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Hens Dancing
✔Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
Moonflower Murders (608p)

Menu
🍕 HEART-SHAPED PIZZA: The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart
🥨 IRISH SODABREAD PRETZEL: A River Enchanted
🥤 NUTMEG SODA: The Nutmeg of Consolation
🍟 DEFINITELY NOT POISONED APPLE FRIES: A Mirror Mended
🍦 BOSTON CREAM PIE-FLAVORED ICE CREAM: The Woman in the Library
🌭 MOON DOG: Sea of Tranquility
🍋 PUCKER-UP RAINBOW LEMONADE: Chef's Kiss
🥤 KIWI SODA: Throne of Jade
🍩 GERMAN CHOCOLATE FUNNEL CAKE: Laughter in the Dark
TBR/Plans
🍴 The Jasmine Throne
🍴 Last Call at the Nightingale
🍴 Black Powder War
Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years (1)
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer (1)
Soda: book that is part of a series (2)
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt (1)
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover (1)
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance (1)
French fries: book from your favorite genre (1)
Nachos: book with more than one author
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages (1)

- Soda
- Lemonade
- Popcorn
- Ice cream cone
Books Read




TBR/Plans
Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
✓Soda: book that is part of a series Finna
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt The Vegetarian
✓Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover Defekt
✓Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance Dept. of Speculation
French fries: book from your favorite genre
Nachos: book with more than one author
✓Popcorn: book with a rural setting The Wasp Factory
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages

Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Funnel cake/Crepes: book that reminds you of summer
The Ophelia Girls 26/5/22
Soda/Pop: book that is part of a series
March Violets [Bernie Gunther series] 25/5/22
French fries: book from your favourite genre
The Empty Birdcage [historical/detective fiction] 25/5/22
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 {prompt Prompt 15. A book without a person on the cover.}

Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover

Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
The Conjuror's Bird 23/5/22
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Hens Dancing 22/5/22
Nachos: book with more than one author
Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters 24/5/22
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
Dark Fire finished 22/5/22

MENU
Lemonade
Soda
Big Pretzel
Popcorn
Hot Dog
Pizza Slice
Ice Cream Cone
OPTIONS
Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Book Lovers
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series
Always Dakota
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Year of the Reaper
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
With the Fire on High
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
Some Girls Do
French fries: book from your favorite genre
Nachos: book with more than one author
Beautiful Beginning
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Shiloh
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
Fourth of July Creek
**BOLD=Finished**
This is such a fun challenge!
MENU
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke
French fries: book from your favorite genre
The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel (historical fiction)
Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
READ & PLANS
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
Nachos: book with more than one author
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
MENU
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke
French fries: book from your favorite genre
The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel (historical fiction)
Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
READ & PLANS
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
Nachos: book with more than one author
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages

LMAO"
I'm sorry, but I see soda I think baking soda."
And pop makes me think "pop goes the weasel!"

Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years - The Lost Apothecary
Soda: book that is part of a series - Dear Miss Kopp
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance - Adult Assembly Required
Popcorn: book with a rural setting - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer - The Summer Place
Dear Miss Kopp and The Summer Place both fit for pizza slice too, but I needed a beverage, and decided funnel cake was preferable to pizza.

Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years - The Best American Travel Writing 2021
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt - Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
French fries: book from your favorite genre
Nachos: book with more than one author - What If It's Us
Popcorn: book with a rural setting - Migrations
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages - Any Way the Wind Blows
I have lived in both soda and pop areas and while I will laugh every time I hear pop, you do you.

Hot dog
Soda (x2)
Popcorn
Pizza slice
Ice cream cone
Options:
Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years: The Candy House
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series: Delusion in Death Calculated in Death
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt: What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance: Love from Scratch
French fries: book from your favorite genre
Nachos: book with more than one author
Popcorn: book with a rural setting: Part of Your World
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages

Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages - This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer - Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Marrow
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance - Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith
Nachos: book with more than one author - ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt - The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
Popcorn: book with a rural setting - The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Soda: book that is part of a series - All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Menu Under Development:
French fries: book from your favorite genre - Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett

🌭 Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
🍩 Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
🍺 Beer: book that is part of a series
🍕 Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
🍋 Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
🍦 Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
🍟 French fries: book from your favorite genre
🌮 Nachos: book with more than one author
🍿 Popcorn: book with a rural setting
🥨 Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
🍕 🍺
Making Money
🍕 🍺 🥨 🍟 🍋
Frozen
🍕 🍩
The Drowner
🍕
All Systems Red
🍕 🍺
The Starless Sea
🍕 🥨

Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Strawberry Shortcake Murder
Soda: book that is part of a series
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
French fries: book from your favorite genre
Nachos: book with more than one author
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
The 6th Target

Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
🥨Soda: book that is part of a series The People That Time Forgot
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
🥨Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
French fries: book from your favorite genre
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
Nachos: book with more than one author
🥨Popcorn: book with a rural setting
River of Teeth
🥨Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Summer on the Island by Brenda Novak

Soda: book that is part of a series
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
Shenanigans by Sarina Bowen

French fries: book from your favorite genre
Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

Nachos: book with more than one author
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher

Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages

Menu
✔Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala 5/28/22
✔Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag 5/29/22
✔Soda: book that is part of a series
All Systems Red by Martha Wells 5/24/22
✔Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden (related to mythology) - 5/21/22
✔Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Home Sweet Motel by Chris Grabenstein 5/26/22
✔Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming 5/23/22
✔French fries: book from your favorite genre
For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay 5/25/22
✔Nachos: book with more than one author
Second Honeymoon by James Patterson & Howard Roughan 5/22/22
✔Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 5/23/22
✔Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
Private Paris by James Patterson & Mark Sullivan 5/27/22

Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Wish You Were Here (published November 2021)
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series
The Genesis Wars
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America. May be a bit of a stretch, but part of the title is written in yellow
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
French fries: book from your favorite genre
Nachos: book with more than one author
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
The Infinity Courts

Books read:
X Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years - The Swimmers
X Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer - Shipped
X Soda: book that is part of a series - Four Aunties and a Wedding
X Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt - Stories of Your Life and Others (a few)
X Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover - Klara and the Sun
X Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance - The Dating Dare
X French fries: book from your favorite genre - The Stationery Shop (historical fiction)
Nachos: book with more than one author
Popcorn: book with a rural setting (a couple might fit here)
X Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages - Midnight's Children

🍩 Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
🍺 Beer: book that is part of a series
🍕 Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
🍋 Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
🍦 Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
🍟 French fries: book from your favorite genre
🌮 Nachos: book with more than one author
🍿 Popcorn: book with a rural setting
🥨 Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages

Fill up your concession stand with junk food and sweets!
oshizu's Concession Stand
Get 'em while they're hot yo!
ZE MENU 9/9
🌭 Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
✔️A Desolation Called Peace (2021)
🍩 Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
✔️Every Last Secret
🍺 Beer: book that is part of a series
✔️Raven Black
✔️Trail of Lightning
✔️Murder in G Major
✔️The Rose Rent
✔️An Equal Justice
✔️A Desolation Called Peace
🍕 Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
✔️Trail of Lightning (mythology)
✔️Little Eyes (Latin American author)
✔️Their Eyes Were Watching God (inclement weather)
✔️Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
✔️A Desolation Called Peace (ATY BoM)
🍋 Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
✔️Trail of Lightning
🍦 Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
✔️Their Eyes Were Watching God
✔️Every Last Secret
🍟 French fries: book from your favorite genre (mystery)
✔️Raven Black
✔️Trail of Lightning
✔️Murder in G Major
✔️The Rose Rent
✔️An Equal Justice
🍿 Popcorn: book with a rural setting
✔️Trail of Lightning
✔️Murder in G Major
✔️The Rose Rent
🥨 Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
✔️A Desolation Called Peace (496)

Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series
🍕Pizza slice: The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (a book less than 220 pages)
🍋Lemonade: Frangipani
🍦Ice cream cone: The Love Connection
French fries: book from your favorite genre
🌮Nachos: Dry
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages

Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series - Scared to Death
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt - Emotionally Weird
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
French fries: book from your favorite genre
Nachos: book with more than one author - Back Roads
✔️Popcorn: book with a rural setting - A Perfectly Good Man
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages - Silver: 2

Those Not-So-Sweet Boys, Vol. 1
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer (05/29)
A Caribbean Mystery
Soda: book that is part of a series (05/23)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt (05/26)
The Color of Magic
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover (05/27)
チェンソーマン 5
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance (05/29)
Stardust
French fries: book from your favorite genre (05/24)
Peril at End House
Nachos: book with more than one author (05/27)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Popcorn: book with a rural setting (05/24)
My Neighbor Totoro
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages (not finished)
The Talisman

🌭Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years - Sorrow and Bliss, The Lincoln Highway
🍩Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer -
🥤Soda: book that is part of a series -- The Book Woman's Daughter
🍕Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt- A History of Loneliness, The Lathe of Heaven
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover -
🍦Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance - The Island of Missing Trees, Emma
🍟French fries: book from your favorite genre -
🌮Nachos: book with more than one author - The Employees
🍿Popcorn: book with a rural setting - The Book Woman's Daughter, Emma
🥨Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages - The Lincoln Highway, Emma
Completed
🎈The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michelle Richardson 🥤🍿🍕
🎈The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 🍦 🍕
🎈Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason 🌭
🎈A History of Loneliness by John Boyne 🍕🍟
🎈The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 🥨 🌭🍕
🎈The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K le Guin 🍕
🎈The Employees by Olga Ravn & Martin Aitken - 🌮
🎈Emma by Jane Austen 🥨🍦🍿

Hot dog: Book published within the last 2 years:
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE WEEK: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice, published 2021.

🥟
Interior Chinatown
The Death of Jane Lawrence
Malibu Rising
🥮
Malibu Rising
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
🧋
On the Edge
🍕 Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
The Westing Game
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
On the Edge
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Interior Chinatown
The Death of Jane Lawrence
🍋 Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
🍧
On the Edge
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
🍟 French fries: book from your favorite genre
On the Edge
🥘
On the Edge
🍿 Popcorn: book with a rural setting
On the Edge
🥨 Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
Books mentioned in this topic
The Dating Dare (other topics)Midnight’s Children (other topics)
Klara and the Sun (other topics)
Lord Peter Views the Body (other topics)
Beautiful Beginning (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Dorothy L. Sayers (other topics)Becky Chambers (other topics)
James Patterson (other topics)
Molly Knox Ostertag (other topics)
Chris Grabenstein (other topics)
More...
Build your menu by reading books that fit the prompts. Repeat a prompt as many times as you want, combine prompts to your hearts content. Your menu has 4 flavors of soda and no food? It's called having a specialty. Your menu only serves lemonade poured over ice cream 'popcorn'? That's patent pending and it costs $30 for a small. This a concession stand: you have a captive audience who has had all good sense Tilt-A-Whirl-ed right out of them.
Hot dog: book published within the last 2 years
Funnel cake: book that reminds you of summer
Soda: book that is part of a series
Pizza slice: book that fits an ATY 2022 prompt
Lemonade: book with yellow on the cover
Ice cream cone: book that includes a romance
French fries: book from your favorite genre
Nachos: book with more than one author
Popcorn: book with a rural setting
Big Pretzel: book with more than 400 pages
Post your menu below!