There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge

[Diana S]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge 🍂
Duration: the month of September 2023

Spell-out one/more of the ALL -CAPPED words listed below:

Fall LEAVES
COZY SOCKS
BONFIRES
S'MORES
BOOTS
Fall FESTIVAL
SCARECROW
PUMPKINS
CORN MAZE
HAYRIDE
SWEATERS
Pumpkin SPICE Latte
SCARVES
CARAMEL Apples
HOMEMADE Soup
CANDY CORN
HARVEST Moon
Apple CIDER
BIRDS Flying South

CHALLENGE RULES
• one book per letter
• use 1st letter in title (excluded 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 👏🎉

🍁 Beverly
🍁 JennH
🍁 Donna
🍁 Koren
🍁 Jonquil
🍁 Licha-Olivia

[Diana S]

🍁🍂 PARTICIPANTS 🍁🍂
Updated: 9/29/23

Carol (16/17) PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE
Diana S (0/8) BONFIRES
🧁🥧Beverly (9/9) SCARECROW C
Robin P (6/7) HARVEST
SouthWestZippy (5/6) LEAVES
Book Concierge (4/5) BIRDS
🧁🥧Licha-Olivia (9/9) COZY SOCKS C
🧁🥧JennH (13/13) CARAMEL APPLES C
🧁🥧Donna (7/7) CARAMEL C
🧁🥧Koren (6/6) S'MORES C
Cara (3/5) BIRDS
🥧🧁Jonquil (8/8) PUMPKINS C
Marilyn (3/6) S'MORES

[Carol]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge - September
17/17

Prowl- Cara Dee - 9/23
Unnatural Death -Dorothy L. Sayars - 9/21
M. A. Innes - Quiet Strength - 9/17
Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger - 9/27
Kit - a character in The Secret Plan - Cara Dee 9/19
Invisible Strings - Aimee Nicole Walker - 9/14
Nick Cutter - The Handyman Method - 9/7

Staub, Wendy Corsi - Windfall - 9/2
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar - 9/25
Innes, M.A.. -Silent Strength - 9/15
Caged In - Luna David - 9/3
Eli- Shaw Montgomery - 9/1

Landon - a character in Bound with You - Shaw Montgomery - 9/10
Archer's Lost Onesie - Della Caine - 9/1
Things We Do in The Dark - Jennifer Hillier - 9/1
Tattersal, Jill -The Wild Hunt - 9/27
Everlee, Jess - A Rulebook for Restless Rogues - 9/14

[Diana S]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge
Duration: September 2023
Books Read: 0/8

Spell-out: BONFIRES

B
O
N
F
I
R
E
S

[Beverly]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge 🍂
Duration: the month of September 2023

9/9

S Strange Highways by Dean Koontz FINISHED 9/4

C Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle FINISHED 9/5

A A.C. Cobble,Endless Flight FINISHED 9/3

R Rosie A. Point, Maple Drizzle Murder FINISHED 9/26

E Easy Bake Coven by Liz Schulte FINISHED 9/11

C Marc Cameron, Stone Cross FINISHED 9/7

R Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things FINISHED 9/18

O One Two Three by Laurie Frankel FINISHED 9/24

W The Wicked Waffle by Carolyn Q. Hunter FINISHED 9/18

[Robin P]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge 🍂
Duration: the month of September 2023

H - Henry ("Monty") Montague, main char of The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky 9/7
A - Ada Bright, co-author The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen 9/2
R - Real Life - Brandon Taylor 9/4
V
E - Earthlings - Sayaka Murata - 9/6
S - Sujata Massey - author of The Widows of Malabar Hill - 9/18
T- Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress!) - author of Angel 9/8

[SouthWestZippy]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge 6/6
Did not complete in Oct
L--The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la by Todd Balf--9/30/23
E--White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages--10/7/23
A--About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son by Peggy Rowe-- 9/10/23
V--Playing the Cards You're Dealt by Varian Johnson--9/28/23
E--The Chef's Apprentice by Elle Newmark--9/22/23
S--A Soldier's Promise: The Heroic True Story of an American Soldier and an Iraqi Boy by Daniel Hendrex--9/15/2023

[Book Concierge]

There's Something in the Air - FALL Challenge
Begins: 01Sept23 / Ends: 30Sept23


5 / 5 completted

In honor of my Mother, who loved them for the freedom they represented to her ...

Birds
B - Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies ✔ – 19Sep23
I - Ingrid Hill / Ursula, Under ✔ – 13Oct23
R - RAYBOURN, Deanna / A Curious Beginning ✔ – 04Sep23
D - Dorothea Benton Frank / Bulls Island ✔ – 06Sep23
S - Small Things Like These ✔ – 02Sep23

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[Licha-Olivia]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge 🍂
Duration: the month of September 2023

COZY SOCKS - 9/9 Letters

C: Center, Katherine; Happiness for Beginners (9/25/23)
O: One Night on the Island Josie Silver (9/4/23)
Z: Zanetti, Rebecca; You Can Run (9/17/23)
Y: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (audiobook) (9/21/23)

S: Sepetys, Ruta; Out of the Easy (9/10/23)
O: O’Farrell, Maggie; I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death (9/14/23)
C: Christie, Agatha; A Deadly Affair (9/29/23)
K: Koontz, Dean; Relentless (9/18/23)
S: Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth (9/30/23)

[JennH]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge 🍂
Duration: the month of September 2023

🍂C - The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie 9/13/23
🍂A - Private India by James Patterson & Ashwin Sanghi 9/10/23
🍂R - The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien 9/6/23
🍂A - The Hollow by Agatha Christie 9/11/23
🍂M - A Killer Stitch by Maggie Sefton 9/10/23
🍂E - For the Wolf by Hannah F. Whitten 9/6/23 - Eammon, the Wolf
🍂L - Granny on Board by Harper Lin 9/11/23

🍂A - N or M? by Agatha Christie 9/18/23
🍂P - Patina by Jason Reynolds 9/9/23
🍂P - Worst Case by James Patterson 9/12/23
🍂L - Steeped in Malice by Vicki Delany 9/12/23 - Lily Roberts
🍂E - Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan 9/24/23
🍂S - The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada 9/6/23

[Donna]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge
Duration: September 2023
Books Read: 7/7

✔C ~~ Danielle Clode, author of ~~ Kaola ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 01Sep23

✔A ~~ Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 16Sep23

✔R ~~ The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by ~~ Stacy Schiff ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 02Sep23

✔A ~~ Alicia Keys, author of ~~ More Myself: A Journey ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 14Sep23

✔M ~~ Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 19Sep23

✔E ~~ Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs by John Bloom ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 14Sep23

✔L ~~ Locked Doors by Blake Crouch ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 07Sep23

[Diana S]

Book Concierge wrote: "There's Something in the Air - FALL Challenge
Begins: 01Sept23 / Ends: 30Sept23


0 / 5 completted

In honor of my Mother, who loved them for the freedom they represented to her ...

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💕 ♥️ 💖

[Koren]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge 🍂
Duration: the month of September 2023

S'--Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes finished 9/7
M-Molly's Memoir by Deanne Edens finished 9/22
O-OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center By Bruce Goldfarb finished 9/1
R-Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva finished 9/20
E-Erika Sanchez -Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir finished 9/14
S-Saturday's Child: A Daughter's Memoir by Deborah Burns finished 9/18

[Cara]

Birds (3/5)

B The Book of Lost Names Kristen Harmel 9/14
I
R Ready Player Two Ernest Cline 9/5
D
S Sisters in Arms Kaia Alderson 9/25

[Jonquil]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge -
September 2023

8/8 DONE

P Past Echoes Graham Smith 9/1
U Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect Will Guidara 9/8
M Mythic Melee Murder Leslie Langtry 9/7
P Police Jo Nesbø 9/10
K Killing Time Brenna Ehrlich 9/15
I I, Angel J.C. Andrijeski 9/20
N Not the Ones Dead Dana Stabenow 9/2
S Sweet Talk Julie Garwood 9/4

[Marilyn]

There's Something in the Air - FALL Challenge
Begins: 01Sept23 / Ends: 30Sept23


3 / 6 completed

S'MORES

S-- Susannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness--9/18/23
M--Michelle Obama, author of The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times--9/6/23

O
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E--Egan, Timothy, author of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them--9/19/23

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[Koren]

Finished. Message #14

[Jonquil]

There is Something in the Air: FALL Challenge -
September 2023

8/8 DONE

P Past Echoes Graham Smith 9/1
U Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect Will Guidara 9/8
M Mythic Melee Murder Leslie Langtry 9/7
P Police Jo Nesbø 9/10
K Killing Time Brenna Ehrlich 9/15
I I, Angel J.C. Andrijeski 9/20
N Not the Ones Dead Dana Stabenow 9/2
S Sweet Talk Julie Garwood 9/4

[Beverly]

Updated message #6: Challenge completed

[Licha-Olivia]

Challenge completed

[SouthWestZippy]

Did not complete in Oct but did finish.

[Book Concierge]

Update message # 9 - Challenge completed - 14Oct23
*It took a while to get that 'I' ...

There's Something in the Air - FALL Challenge
Begins: 01Sept23 / Ends: 30Sept23


5 / 5 completted

In honor of my Mother, who loved them for the freedom they represented to her ...

Birds
B - Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies ✔ – 19Sep23
I - Ingrid Hill / Ursula, Under ✔ – 13Oct23
R - RAYBOURN, Deanna / A Curious Beginning ✔ – 04Sep23
D - Dorothea Benton Frank / Bulls Island ✔ – 06Sep23
S - Small Things Like These ✔ – 02Sep23

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