2025 Reading Challenge discussion
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I Spy - 2023

Progress 17/25
🕵️♂️5. Olympic sport (skiing, basketball, gymnastics) BIKING

🕵️♂️7. Cat family (tiger, tabby, cheetah)

🕵️♂️9. Type of weather (stormy, rainy, sunny)

🕵️♂️12. Something you sit on (sofa, chair, bed)
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
🕵️♂️14. Art or craft (painting, sewing, scrapbooking)

🕵️♂️20. Name for a road (avenue, street, circuit) The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

19. An accessory - I See Life Through Rosé Colored Glasses by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella

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3. Food / Drink - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
10. City in Europe - The Paris Library
23. Something you walk through - Golden Gate




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🔍 1. Transportation (car, train, skateboard): Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
2. Days of the week (Monday, Saturday, Wednesday)
3. A food or drink (carrot, chips, coffee)
🔍 4. Type of crime (thievery, murder, robbery) Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
5. Olympic sport (skiing, basketball, gymnastics)
🔍 6. Musical instruments (saxophone, piano, drums) The Ballad of Black Tom
7. Cat family (tiger, tabby, cheetah)
8. School subject (mathematics, English, chemistry)
🔍 9. Type of weather (stormy, rainy, sunny) Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness
🔍 10. City in Europe (Paris, Istanbul, Athens) (they are standing on the Alexandre III bridge in Paris) Keeper of the Lost Cities
🔍 11. Celebration (birthday, wedding, Eid) Her Holiday Hero
🔍 12. Something you sit on (sofa, chair, bed): My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir
🔍13. A source of light (sun, lamp, torch): The Whale, the Sea and the Stars
🔍 14. Art or craft (painting, sewing, scrapbooking) (woodcraft): Build Yourself a Boat
15. A measurement (metres, feet, pounds)
🔍16. Something you hang on the wall (clock, picture, frame): Evil Flowers: Stories
🔍17. Something you find at a circus (clown, ringmaster, popcorn): A Voice for the Spirit Bears: How One Boy Inspired Millions to Save a Rare Animal
18. A direction (North, West, East)
🔍19. An accessory (bag, necklace, scarf): With This Collar
20. Name for a road (avenue, street, circuit)
🔍 21. Shade of purple (plum, violet, magenta) Multiverses: An anthology of alternate realities
🔍 22. Something you write (poem, book, essay) Les lettres de mon moulin
🔍 23. Something you walk through (tunnel, arch, door): A Room of One's Own
🔍 24. Something you find in a house (picture, kitchen, couch): (a puzzle) The Second Time Around
🔍 25. A bird (raven, crow, pigeon) I Want to Build a Seahouse
🔍 26. Something you find on a farm (chicken, tractor, hay) Kindred
27. A term of endearment (sweetheart, honey, love)
28. A chess piece (pawn, bishop, knight)
🔍 29. Something yellow (corn, daffodil, amber) A Christmas Carol
🔍 30. Technology (phone, computer, television) All Systems Red

3. A food or drink - Legends & Lattes (latte)
8. School subject - Lessons in Chemistry (chemistry)
12. Something you sit on - Gwen and Art Are Not in Love (horse)
24. Something you find in a house - The Shadow Cabinet (cabinet)

Goal: 13/25, 52.00%
14. Art or craft: The Tailor of Panama - 04 May 2023, 3/5

Progress: 20/15
I might up my goal later on, but for now I am happy to have completed the challenge. Thanks Ashleigh!

14/30 completed
8. School subject (mathematics, English, chemistry) A Short History of Nearly Everything DONE
10. City in Europe (Paris, Istanbul, Athens) Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria DONE
15. A measurement (metres, feet, pounds) 100 Days of Sunlight DONE

17. Something you find at a circus (clown, ringmaster, popcorn): The Candy House by Jennifer Egan (6/14/23)
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Roop wrote: "Put me in for 20 categories please."
Primary 25 categories with examples
1. Transportation (car, train, skateboard) - After I Do (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...)
2. Days of the week (Monday, Saturday, Wednesday)
3. A food or drink (carrot, chips, coffee)
4. Type of crime (thievery, murder, robbery) - Born a Crime (Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood)
5. Olympic sport (skiing, basketball, gymnastics)
6. Musical instruments (saxophone, piano, drums)
7. Cat family (tiger, tabby, cheetah)
8. School subject (mathematics, English, chemistry)
9. Type of weather (stormy, rainy, sunny) - Every Summer After https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
10. City in Europe (Paris, Istanbul, Athens)
11. Celebration (birthday, wedding, Eid)
12. Something you sit on (sofa, chair, bed) - The No Show, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
13. A source of light (sun, lamp, torch)
14. Art or craft (painting, sewing, scrapbooking)
15. A measurement (metres, feet, pounds)
16. Something you hang on the wall (clock, picture, frame) - Trick Mirror, Trick Mirror
17. Something you find at a circus (clown, ringmaster, popcorn)
18. A direction (North, West, East)
19. An accessory (bag, necklace, scarf) - The Do-Over (The Do-Over (The Miles High Club, #4))
20. Name for a road (avenue, street, circuit)
21. Shade of purple (plum, violet, magenta) - The Lies I Tell (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
22. Something you write (poem, book, essay) - Book Lovers (Book Lovers)
23. Something you walk through (tunnel, arch, door)
24. Something you find in a house (picture, kitchen, couch)
25. A bird (raven, crow, pigeon)
Bonus 5 categories with examples (only open for members who have finished reading for all the primary categories):
26. Something you find on a farm (chicken, tractor, hay)
27. A term of endearment (sweetheart, honey, love)
28. A chess piece (pawn, bishop, knight)
29. Something yellow (corn, daffodil, amber) - Beauty and the Baller (Beauty and the Baller (Strangers in Love #1))
30. Technology (phone, computer, television)
Books mentioned in this topic
The Coast Road (other topics)Somewhere Beyond the Sea (other topics)
Infinity in Our Hearts (other topics)
Und dann verschwinde ich in die Nacht: Der Golden-State-Killer (True Crime) (other topics)
The Pawn (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Lisa Jewell (other topics)Yann Martel (other topics)
Peter Høeg (other topics)
Marianne Arkins (other topics)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi (other topics)
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