Summer Fun Challenge

[Diana S]

Summer Fun Challenge
Duration: July 1 through July 31, 2022

Spell-out one/more ALL-CAPPED Funtime below:

Go CAMPING
Shop at a farmer's MARKET
See FIREWORKS Display
Go FISHING
Relax in a HAMMOCK
GRILL Outdoors
Make ICE CREAM
Walk BAREFOOT
Play MINI GOLF
Attend an outdoor CONCERT
Sit on a PORCH SWING
Gather SEASHELLS
Go SWIMMING
Take a VACATION
Toss WATER Balloons
Go on a PICNIC
Attend a BASEBALL game

Challenge Rules
• one book per letter
• books must be 100+ pages
• use 1st letter of title (exclude A, An, The)
• use 1st letter of Author's FIRST/LAST name
• use 1st letter of Main Character's FIRST/LAST name

For Each Book Read
• LINK to Title
• INDICATE Author
• give DATE you finished book

Ratings are Optional
Happy Reading! 📚 😊

[Diana S]

CONGRATULATIONS !!!
Completed Challenge

⛱️ CAROL ⛱️
⛱️ BOOK CONCIERGE ⛱️
⛱️ DONNA ⛱️
⛱️ LICHA-OLIVIA ⛱️
⛱️ KOREN ⛱️
⛱️ SOUTHWESTZIPPY ⛱️
⛱️CARA ⛱️
⛱️ JONQUIL ⛱️
⛱️ MARILYN ⛱️

Congrats 🎉 to ALL who finished their challenge this month

[Diana S]

PARTICIPANTS
Updated: 8/1/22

JennH - SEASHELLS (6/9)
Diana S - PORCH SWING (1/10)
🪴🪴Carol - ATTEND AN OUTDOOR CONCERT (22/22)
🪴🪴Book Concierge - MARKET (6/6)
🪴🪴Donna - BASEBALL GAME (12/12)
🪴🪴Licha-Olivia - FIREWORKS (9/9)
🪴🪴Koren - BASEBALL (8/8)
🪴🪴SouthWestZippy - FISHING (7/7)
🪴🪴Cara - WATER (5/5)
🪴🪴Jonquil - SWIMMING (8/8)
Robin P - MARKET (3/6)
🪴🪴Marilyn - WATER (5/5)

[JennH]

🐚🐚Summer Fun Challenge 🐚
Duration: July 1 through July 31, 2022

🐚S - Stabbed in the Baklava by Tina Kashian 7/3/22
🐚E - Mocha, She Wrote by Ellie Alexander 7/16/22
🐚A - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie 7/16/22
🐚S - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas 7/13/22
🐚H - A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons by Cressida Cowell 7/19/22
E
L - The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood 7/28/22
L
S

[Diana S]

Summer Fun Challenge

Sit on a PORCH SWING

Spell-out: PORCH SWING (1/10)


P
O
R
Conley Hawkins in Hello, Summer
by Mary Kay Andrews (7/2/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
H - The Homewreckers

S
W
I
N - The Newcomer
G

[Carol]

Sumer Fun Challenge
ATTEND AN OUTDOOR CONCERT

22/22 - DONE 7/26
Amnda Eyre Ward - The Lifeguards -8/5
Thief Lord, The - Cordelia Funke - 7/1
TG Reid - Blood Water Falls -7/10
Emerald O'Brien - The Secrets They Keep 7/8
Nightmare Room The - Chris Sorensen -7/2
Danielle Boatman (main character) -The Ghost of Marlow House - Bobbie Holmes - 7/1

Arctic Sun - Annabeth Albert - 7/4
Nick Lawrence - (Main Character) Kill List - Brian Shea - 7/4

Once Gone - Blake Pierce - 7/3
Unwritten Law - Edna Finley - 7/24
This Rough Magic - Josh Lanyon - 7/14
Dal Macclean - Blue on Blue -7/16
Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper -7/18
Osmen, Alice - Heartstopper, Vol. 1 -7/19
Reynolds, Allie - Shiver -7/6

Children on the Hill, The - Jennifer McMahon - 7/2
Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis - 7/20
Never Stay Gone - Tal Bruer - 7/26
C.J. Carmichael - Buried - 7/4
Edwards, Mark - Follow You Home - 7/15
Rhys Ford - Sinner's Gin - 7/9
Tal Bauer - Hush - 7/17

[Book Concierge]

July 2022: Summer Fun Challenge
Begins: 01July22 / Ends: 31July22

Shop at a farmer's MARKET

6 / 6 completed

Market
M -Margaret Atwood / Negotiating with the Dead: ✔ - 23July22
A - Ashley Poston / Bookish and the Beast ✔ - 31July22
R - RAVEN, Catherine / Fox & I ✔ – 14July22
K - KINGSOLVER, Barbara / Small Wonder ✔ – 15July22
E - Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed ✔ – 02July22
T - TUROW, Scott / One L ✔ – 08July22

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[Donna]

BASEBALL GAME

Found: 12/ 12 ---CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

✔B ~~ A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World ~~ by C.A. Fletcher ~~ 5 Stars ~~ 04Jul22

✔A ~~ All This Could Be Yours ~~ by Jami Attenberg ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 06Jul22

✔S ~~ Sadie ~~ by Courtney Summers ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 02Jul22

✔E ~~ The End of Men ~~ by Christina Sweeney-Baird ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 07Jul22

✔B ~~ Brian Freeman, author of ~~ Goodbye to the Dead ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 14Jul22

✔A ~~ Elizabeth Acevedo, author of ~~ The Poet X ~~ 5 Stars ~~ 04Jul22

✔L ~~ Grace D. Li, author of ~~ Portrait of a Thief ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 08Jul22

✔L ~~ Josh Levin, author of ~~ The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 04Jul22


✔G ~~ The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade ~~ by Ann Fessler ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 26Jul22

✔A ~~ Rumaan Alam, author of ~~ Leave the World Behind ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 27Jul22

✔M ~~ Michael Robotham , author of ~~ The Wreckage ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 03Jul22

✔E ~~ Janet Evanovich, author of ~~ Look Alive Twenty-Five ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 11Jul22

[Licha-Olivia]

Summer Fun Challenge
Duration: July 1 through July 31, 2022

9/9 Letters

F: Fear the Darkness Alexandra Ivy (7/20/22)
I: Ivy, Alexandra Bound By Darkness (7/10/22)
R: Rachel Harris The Fine Art of Pretending (7/28/22)
E: Essex, Karen Dracula in Love (7/8/22)

W: Where Darkness Lives Alexandra Ivy (7/15/22)
O: O’Connell, Caitlin Ivory Ghosts (7/31/22)
R: Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island (7/24/22)
K: Kerrigan Byrne Crying Wolfe (7/14/22)
S: Scott Westerfeld Pretties (7/12/22)

[Koren]

Summer Fun Challenge
Duration: July 1 through July 31, 2022

B-Barrett, Jackie The Devil I Know: My Haunting Journey with Ronnie DeFeo and the True Story of the Amityville Murders finished 7/2

A-Adam Nedeff Quizmaster: The Life and Times and Fun and Games of Bill Cullen finished 7/17

S-Sundown at Sunrise: A Story of Love and Murder, Based on One of the Most Notorious Ax Murders in American History by Marty Seifert finished 7/8

E-East of the Sun: A Memoir by Noha Shaath Ismail finished 7/23

B-The Bullet Hill Diaries by Bennett Powers finished 7/18

A-All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks finished 7/30

L-The Life (and Wife) of Allen Ludden by Adam Nedeff finished 7/3

L--The Liars' Club by Mary Karr finished 7/27

[SouthWestZippy]

Summer Fun Challenge
Go FISHING-FINISHED
7/7
F- Agos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs by Charles Falco 7/5/22
I-I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles by Lily Burana 9/16/22
S-Where I Come From: Life Lessons from a Latino Chef by Aaron Sanchez 7/11/22
H-Was This Man a Genius?: Talks With Andy Kaufman by Julie Hecht
I-It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him by Justin Tinsley 7/26/22
N-Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild by Bear Grylls 7/15/22
G-Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living by Jason Guy 7/31/22

[Cara]

Water 5/5 Done

W Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life Bonnie Friedman 7/18
A After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search Sarah Perry 7/12
T Today Means Amen Sierra DeMulder 7/6
E Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell 7/31
R The Rebel Nun Marj Chalier 7/22

[Jonquil]

Summer Fun Challenge
July 2022

8/8 DONE

S Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life Helen Czerski 7/13
W Wedding Cake and Woes Agatha Frost 7/16
I Irish Castle Murder Penny Brooke 7/2
M Midsummer Night's Mischief Jennifer David Hesse 7/10
M Murder Gone Cold B.J. Daniels 7/15
I Into Dust B.J. Daniels 7/17
N Navajo's Woman Beverly Barton 7/14
G Garden of Lies Amanda Quick 7/19

[Robin P]

MARKET

M - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - author Mackenzi Lee - Jul 6
A - Smoke and Ashes - author Abir Mukherjee - Jul 11
R
K
E
T - French Braid - author Anne Tyler - Jul 11

[Diana S]

✌️

[Marilyn]

Summer Fun Challenge
July, 2022

WATER
5 /5 books read

✔W--A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson--7/5/22
✔A--Anderson Cooper, author of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty--7/23/22
✔T--These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann--7/1/22
✔E--Erdrich, Louise, author of The Sentence--7/11/22
✔R--Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane--7/14/22

[Jonquil]

Summer Fun Challenge
July 2022

8/8 DONE

S Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life Helen Czerski 7/13
W Wedding Cake and Woes Agatha Frost 7/16
I Irish Castle Murder Penny Brooke 7/2
M Midsummer Night's Mischief Jennifer David Hesse 7/10
M Murder Gone Cold B.J. Daniels 7/15
I Into Dust B.J. Daniels 7/17
N Navajo's Woman Beverly Barton 7/14
G Garden of Lies Amanda Quick 7/19

[SouthWestZippy]

Summer Fun Challenge
Go FISHING-FINISHED

[Koren]

Finished!

[Licha-Olivia]

Challenge completed!

[Book Concierge]

Update message # 7 - Challenge completed - 31July22


July 2022: Summer Fun Challenge
Begins: 01July22 / Ends: 31July22

Shop at a farmer's MARKET

6 / 6 completed

Market
M -Margaret Atwood / Negotiating with the Dead: ✔ - 23July22
A - Ashley Poston / Bookish and the Beast ✔ - 31July22
R - RAVEN, Catherine / Fox & I ✔ – 14July22
K - KINGSOLVER, Barbara / Small Wonder ✔ – 15July22
E - Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed ✔ – 02July22
T - TUROW, Scott / One L ✔ – 08July22

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