The HALF-TIME Challenge

[Diana S]

THE HALF-TIME CHALLENGE
Duration: September 1- 30, 2022

My Favorite part of a High School Football Game is watching the Marching Bands during half-time.

Spell-out one/more of the ALL-CAPPED 🎺 Musical Instruments 🥁 below:

PICCOLO
FLUTE
CLARINET
SAXOPHONE
TRUMPET
CORNET
FRENCH HORN
BARITONE
TROMBONE
TUBAS
DRUMLINE
XYLOPHONE
CYMBALS

🎷NOTE: if you pick an instrument with a X. The X doesn't need to be at the beginning of the title, author name, or MC name (no sub-titles) e.g. Bird Box

Challenge Rules
• one book per letter
• use 1st letter of the (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 marching with a French Horn and Tuba 🥁🥁
🥁🥁 Donna marching with a Trombone
🥁🥁 Robin P marching with a Clarinet and Flute 🥁🥁
🥁🥁 JennH marching with a Clarinet
🥁🥁 Jonquil marching with a Clarinet
🥁🥁 Koren marching with a Cornet
🥁🥁 SouthWestZippy marching with a Tuba
🥁🥁 Beverly marching with a Baritone
🥁🥁 Book Concierge marching with a Flute

[Diana S]

PARTICIPANTS
Updated: 10/1

🎺Book Concierge - FLUTE (5/5) C
Cara - CORNET (4/6)
🎺🎺Carol - FRENCH HORN (10/10) C TUBAS - 5/5 C
🎺Donna - TROMBONE (8/8) C
🎺🎺Robin P - CLARINET (8/8) C FLUTE (5/5) C
🎺SouthWestZippy - TUBAS (5/5) C
🎺JennH - CLARINET (8/8) C
Licha-Olivia - DRUMLINE (7/8)
🎺Jonquil - CLARINET (8/8) C
🎺Beverly - BARITONE (8/8) C
Diana S - BARITONE (0/8)
Marilyn - TUBAS (4/5)
🎺Koren - CORNET (6/6) C

[Book Concierge]

September 2022: HALF-TIME Challenge
Begins: 01Sep22 / Ends: 30Sep22


5 / 5 completed

Flute
F - Fly Away ✔– 09Sep22
L - Lucky in Love ✔– 10Sep22
U - Unconsoled ✔ – 06Sep22
T - TEY is main char in Angel with Two Faces ✔ - 30Sep22
E - Eyes of the Dragon ✔ – 13Sep22


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[Cara]

CORNET (4/6)

C Columbine Dave Cullen
O One of Us Is Lying Karen M McManus
R The Removed Brandon Hobson
N
E The Ex Talk Rachel Lynn Solomon
T

[Carol]

THE HALF-TIME CHALLENGE - September
10/10 - Done 9/19

Fix Is In (The) - Mary Calmes - 9/4
Rowland, Susan - The Sacred Well Murders - 9/9
Elle Keaton - When It Rains - 9/1
November 9 - Coleen Hoover - 8/10
Cole McCade - Just Like That - 9/7
Haunting of Witterwick House - John Hennassy - 9/6

Heather Gudenkauf -These Things Hidden - 9/15
Once Burned -Jeaniene Frost - 9/19
Robert McCammon - Mystery Walk - 9/9
Not My Child - Samantha King - 9/11

I have more books and more time than money, so I'll learn to play the tuba:)
5/5 - Done 9/27
Tom Caldwell - character in Extra Whip - L. A. Witt - 9/18
Unforgotten - Jessica Brody - 9/26
Blood & Dirt - Corey Niles -9/25
Abigale Hall -Lauren A, Forry - 9/20
Swanson, M. Scott - Foolish Games - 9/23

[Donna]

THE HALF-TIME CHALLENGE - September
FOUND: 8/8

✔T ~~ Temporary Sanity ~~ Rose Connors ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 24Sep22

✔R ~~ Carolina De Robertis, author of ~~ Cantoras ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 07Sep22

✔O ~~ Ottessa Moshfegh, author of ~~ Death in Her Handss ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 07Sep22

✔M ~~ The Maid ~~ by Nita Prose ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 12Sep22

✔B ~~ Broken ~~ by Don Winslow ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 02Sep22

✔O ~~ Ocean Prey by John Sandford ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 18Sep22

✔N ~~ Nic Stone, author of ~~ Dear Martin ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 07Sept22

✔E ~~ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City ~~ by Matthew Desmond ~~ 5 Stars ~~ 08Sep22

[Robin P]

THE HALF-TIME CHALLENGE
Duration: September 1- 30, 2022
**Completed 9/16**

C - character Catherine in The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics 9/2
L - Last Night at the Telegraph Club 9/3
A - Anthony Slayton author of A Most Efficient Murder - 9/7
R - Robert Galbraith author of The Ink Black Heart 9/14
I - character Isabella in Harriet and Isabella 9/6
N - Naomi Novik author of A Deadly Education 9/8
E - Louise Erdrich author of Love Medicine 9/16
T - Tracks 9/4

[SouthWestZippy]

Football Game-HALF-TIME CHALLENGE
5/5-Completed

T-The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse by Tom Downey 9/30/22
U-Uphill All the Way: A Memoir of a Depression Era Family, their trials, tribulations and triumphs. by James Sloter 9/19/22
B-Bark to the Future by Spencer Quinn 9/4/22
A-The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander 9/10/22
S-The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg 9/12/22

[JennH]

I’ve played the clarinet, though not in marching band, so that’ll be my word.

The Half-Time Challenge

✔C - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy 9/11/22
✔L - The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro 9/6/22
✔A - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 9/3/22
✔R - Red Dragon by Thomas Harris 9/9/22
✔I - Tart of Darkness by Denise Swanson 9/26/22 - Ivy
✔N - Raspberry Truffle Murder by Wendy Meadows 9/12/22 - Nikki
✔E - Bake, Borrow, and Steal by Ellie Alexander 9/18/22
✔T - Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune 9/2/22

[Licha-Olivia]

THE HALF-TIME CHALLENGE
Duration: September 1- 30, 2022

8/8 Letters

D: Dashiell Hammett; The Thin Man (9/21/22)
R: Rosie Project (The); Graeme Simsion (9/27/22)
U: Upside of Falling (The); Alex Light (10/03/22)
M: Mayer, Shannon and Kelly St Clare; A Crown of Petals and Ice (9/16/22)
L: Lindgren, Astrid; Pippi Longstocking (9/4/22)
I: Invitation to Die Barbara Cleverly (9/30/22)
N: Nightwork Nora Roberts (9/15/22)
E: Eloise James; How to Be a Wallflower (9/23/22)

[Jonquil]

The Half-Time Challenge
September 2022

8/8 DONE

C Christmas Cloches and Corpses: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Gayle Leeson 9/10
L Lone Wolf Bounty Hunter Danica Winters 9/15
A Agent-in-Charge Leigh Riker 9/14
R Revenge on the Ranch Carla Cassidy 9/3
I In Too Steep Kate Kingsbury 9/3
N No Parm No Foul Linda Reilly 9/2
E Embroidering Shrouds Priscilla Masters 9/1
T Thanks a Lot, Universe Chad Lucas 9/9

[Beverly]

THE HALF-TIME CHALLENGE
Duration: September 1- 30, 2022

8/8

B M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death FINISHED 9/5
A As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes FINISHED 9/5
R James Reynolds, Gallery of Ghosts FINISHED 9/29
I I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis FINISHED 9/6
T The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra FINISHED 9/2
O Betty M. Owen, 11 Great Horror Stories FINISHED 9/27
N Walker Newton, East Coast Toast FINISHED 9/19
E Ellie Midwood, The Girl in the Striped Dress FINISHED 9/13

[Diana S]

THE HALF-TIME CHALLENGE
Books Read: 0/8

Spell-out: BARITONE

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O
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[Marilyn]

September 2022: HALF-TIME Challenge
Begins: 01Sep22 / Ends: 30Sep22


4 / 5 completed

TUBAS

✔T - Trevor, one of the main characters in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong--9/8/22
U
✔B - Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption--9/4/22
✔A - Alice Hoffman, author of The World That We Knew--9/12/22
✔S - The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka--9/12/22

[Koren]

THE HALF-TIME CHALLENGE
Duration: September 1- 30, 2022

C-Country Grit: A Farmoir of Finding Purpose and Love by Scottie Jones finished 9/2
O-Olivia Campbell Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine finished 9/5
R-Rory Kress The Doggie in the Window: How One Beloved Dog Opened My Eyes to the Complicated Story Behind Man's Best Friend finished 9/7
N-The Nurses of Mayo Clinic: Caring Healers by Arlene Keeling finished 9/11
E-Erin Corwin (main character) Secrets of a Marine's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Obsession, and Murder by Shanna Hogan finished 9/17
T-Texas Stready Deep in the Heart of Texas: A Memoir finished 9/10

[Koren]

Finished!

[Robin P]

I finished CLARINET, will try FLUTE

F - The Beginning of Spring author Penelope Fitzgerald 9/11
L- Midnight Marriage author Lucinda Brant 9/9
U - Under the Udala Trees 9/30
T- An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good author
Helene Tursten 9/15
E - Ethan is a main character in Blue Diary 9/22

[Jonquil]

Done message 12

[Book Concierge]

Robin P wrote: "I finished CLARINET, will try FLUTE


Way to go, Robin ... you'll be the entire marching band ....

[Robin P]

Book Concierge wrote: "Robin P wrote: "I finished CLARINET, will try FLUTE


Way to go, Robin ... you'll be the entire marching band ...."

Well, I think U will be difficult! But I am listening to Under the Udala Trees! I hope I can finish before the end of September.

[Beverly]

Updated message #13: COMPLETE

[Book Concierge]

Update Message # 4 - Challenge completed - 30Sep22

[SouthWestZippy]

Football Game-HALF-TIME CHALLENGE
5/5-Completed

[Robin P]

Robin P wrote: "Book Concierge wrote: "Robin P wrote: "I finished CLARINET, will try FLUTE


Way to go, Robin ... you'll be the entire marching band ...."

Well, I think U will be difficult! But I am listening to ..."

Made it, finishing FLUTE around 9pm on 9/30!

[Licha-Olivia]

Challenge completed