HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE

[Diana S]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Duration: month of May

Spell-out one/more of the ALL-CAPPED Summer Fun below:

PICNICS
CAMPOUTS
ROAD TRIPS
Amusement PARKS
Swimming POOLS
Summer READING Program
CRUISES
TUBING Down the River
HEATWAVE
Going to the BEACH
Catching FIREFLIES
BASEBALL Games
SHAKESPEARE in the Park
INSECTS Galore
SNOW CONES
Zoo FIELD TRIP
Making ICE CREAM


CHALLENGE RULES
• one book per letter
• use 1st letter in TITLE (exclude A, An, or 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👍🥂


Jonquil
Book Concierge
Koren
Beverly

[Diana S]

PARTICIPANTS
Updated: 6/1/24

🌞Jonquil - CAMPOUTS (8/8) C
🌞Book Concierge - BEACH (5/5) C
Licha-Olivia - READING (5/7)
Carol - SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK (20/21)
Diana S - HEATWAVE (0/8)
🌞Beverly - FIREFLIES (9/9) C
Marilyn - INSECTS (5/7)
🌞Koren - CAMPOUTS (8/8) C
JennH - SUMMER READING (12/13)

[Jonquil]

HELLO SUMMER! 2024 CHALLENGE

8/8 DONE

C Cat Got Your Crown Julie Chase 5/7
A Antique Blues Jane K. Cleland 5/1
M Miss Julia Meets Her Match Ann B. Ross 5/4
P Pick Your Poison Leann Sweeney 5/9
O One Dog Too Many Lia Farrell 5/6
U Unsolved Bayou Murder Carla Cassidy 5/5
T Totally Folked Penny Reid 5/5
S Sand Sharks Margaret Maron 5/3

[Book Concierge]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Begins: 01May24 / Ends: 31May24


5 / 5 completed


Beach
B BROWN, Daniel James / The Indifferent Stars Above✔ – 29May24
E - Everything We Didn't Say ✔ – 28May24
A - Annelise Ryan / A Death in Door County ✔ – 02May24
C - Carrot Cake Murder ✔ – 03May24
H - Heaven & Earth Grocery Store ✔ – 11May24

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[Licha-Olivia]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Duration: month of May

5/7 Letters

R: Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing (5/3/24)
E:
A: Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River (5/5/24)
D: Dawnbringer, Mara (mc); A Prophecy of Undone I.A. Takerian (5/28/24)
I: I.(Isabeau) A. Takerian; Rise of the Dawnbringer (5/26/24)
N:
G: Gabaldon, Diana Outlander (5/20/24)

[Carol]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
21/21

Stevens, Felice - Influenced - 5/3 (Hoopla)
Hogan ,Jay - Off Balance - 5/2
A. W. Scott - His Christmas Conundrum - 5/1
KC. Wells - Desire & Denial - 5/10
Elizabeth Esgstrom - When Darkness Loves Us - 5/5
Sunyi Dean - The Book Eaters - 5/3
Pick Up Man - Jodi Payne - 5/2
Elementals, The - Michael McDowell - 5/11
Alix Harrow - Starling House - 5/6
Ryder - Jacki James - 5/15
Elizabeth Peters - The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits - 5/15
E.M. Lindsey - Renegades 5/21
I Loved You in Another Life - David Arnold - 5/4
No Place That Far - L.A. Witt - 5/9

Treasure - Athena Steller - 5/8
Hathorne, Kate - Bound - 5/6
Every Last Secret - Torre -5/31

Parts of Us - Cara Dee - 5/19
Angel of Indian Lake - Stephen Graham Jones - 4.5 stars - 5/7
R.J, Palacio - Wonder - 5/22
Kidd, Jess - Things in Jars - 5/8

[Diana S]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Books Read:

Spell-out: HEATWAVE

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[Beverly]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Duration: month of May

9/9

F A Flair for Chardonnay by Deborah Garner FINISHED 5/3
I Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni FINISHED 5/6
R Jessica Rosenberg, Butter, Sugar, Magic FINISHED 5/15
E Evanna Lynch , The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up FINISHED 5/3
F Fallibilities & Peculiarities : Exploring the Odd Things We Think & Do by Robert Prior-Wandesforde FINISHED 5/31
L Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke FINISHED 5/18
I Irish Coffee Murder by Leslie Meier FINISHED 5/28
E Ellie Alexander, Catch Me If You Candy FINISHED 5/8
S John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society by FINISHED 5/25

[Marilyn]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Begins: 01May24 / Ends: 31May24

5 / 7 completed

Insects

I

N--Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful--5/27/24

S--Simmons, Ruth J, author of Up Home: One Girl's Journey--5/4/24
E--Elizabeth Crook, author of The Which Way Tree--5/5/24
C--Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen--5/16/24

T

S--Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan--5/7/24

[Koren]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Begins: 01May24 / Ends: 31May24

C-Clark, Tena Southern Discomfort: A Memoir finished 5/14
A-Andrew Rannells Too Much Is Not Enough finished 5/2
M-Michelle Horton Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds finished 5/8
P-Picoult, Jodi Small Great Things finished 5/25
O-O'Connor, Sinead Rememberings finished 5/31
U-An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin finished 5/15
T-The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso finished 5/20
S-Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry MacLean finished 5/1

[JennH]

HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Duration: month of May

S - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 5/30/24
U - Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald 5/12/24
M - Fatal First Edition by Jenn McKinlay 5/8/24
M - Three Keys by Kelly Yang 5/27/24
E - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg 5/8/24
R - Red Alert by James Patterson 5/18/24

R - Rules by Cynthia Lord 5/30/24
E - Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly 5/29/24
A - Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King 5/17/24
D - Los Monstruos: Felice and the Wailing Woman by Diana López 5/8/24
I
N - Not Your All-American Girl by Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang 5/23/24
G - Criminal Destiny by Gordon Korman 5/4/24

[Koren]

Finished! message #11

[Book Concierge]

Update message # 5 - Challenge completed - ✔ 29May24


HELLO SUMMER! CHALLENGE
Begins: 01May24 / Ends: 31May24


5 / 5 completed


Beach
B BROWN, Daniel James / The Indifferent Stars Above✔ – 29May24
E - Everything We Didn't Say ✔ – 28May24
A - Annelise Ryan / A Death in Door County ✔ – 02May24
C - Carrot Cake Murder ✔ – 03May24
H - Heaven & Earth Grocery Store ✔ – 11May24

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[Beverly]

Updated message #9: Challenge complete