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Finished my JuneJune
1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
2. National Prune Day
3. Let's Catch a Movie
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
✓ 06/06
June1 a. A Book with a writing utensil on the cover -
July
3c. A book with an elements of survival - The Stone Sky
August
2c. set somewhere you would like to visit - Another Man's Moccasins
4 b Nonfiction - The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
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Sherri, to get a raffle entry you need to fulfill four prompts from a month. So for June, you would need a book for say 1a, 2a, 3b, and 4c of the June prompts. Not four across all the months. Does that make sense? You can re-assign the books you've finished or you can wait and come back later when you're ready.
August -- Severina1b. A book with red on the cover
+ The Gates by John Connolly (06-13-24)
2b. A book by a favorite author
+ You Like It Darker by Stephen King (06-09-24)
3a. A book with multiple points of view
+ The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig (06-22-24)
4a. A book borrowed from the library
+ The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman (04-28-24)
June 2024National Ballpoint Pen Day
c A book about a writer, bookseller or librarian.
When We Were Young
National Prune Day
b A book with more than 400 pages.
In the Lives of Puppets
Let's Catch A Movie
a Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM.
The WandererRobyn Carr
Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
b A translated book
The Alchemist
Martha's June Entry1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
June 10th, the anniversary of the patent filing. Fun fact: the world's most popular ball point is the Bic Crystal, which sells on average 57 pens per second.
c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop Book is about a book seller.
2. National Prune Day
June 15th. Fun fact: prunes, the dried version of plums, were originally from China.
a. A book written by someone over the age of 60: James Author is 67
3. Let's Catch a Movie
The term 'blockbuster' was originally used to describe especially destructive bombs, and then came to mean shocking news stories. It's current use as a movie with huge box office returns is often attributed to producer Max Youngstein
c. A book published in the last two years: The Spoiled Heart Published in 2024
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
Born on June 7th 1848 Gauguin was a French artist most known for his contributions to the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He lived in France, Peru, Martinique, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands.
c. A book with a seven in the page count: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 327 pages
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Laura Z's June Challenge1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
✅a. A book with a writing utensil on the cover: Ink Blood Sister Scribe ★★★★
✅b. A book written under a pen name: Love and Other Words ★★★★
✅c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian: The Lonely Hearts Book Club, Lucy Gilmore ★★★★
2. National Prune Day
✅a. A book written by someone over the age of 60: You Like It Darker ★★★★
✅b. A book with more than 400 pages: Middlemarch, George Eliot/Mary Ann Evans ★★★
✅c. A book with purple on the cover: Twelfth Knight, Alexene Farol Follmuth ★★★★
3. Let's Catch a Movie
✅a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM: I Take You, Eliza Kennedy ★★
✅b. A book that has been adapted into a movie or series: The Buccaneers, Edith Wharton ★★★★
✅c. A book published in the last two years: Good Bad Girl, Alice Feeney ★★★★
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
✅a. A book with at least 4 colors on the cover: Margo's Got Money Troubles ★★★★
✅b. A translated book: Tales from the Café, Toshikazu Kawaguchi ★★★★
✅c. A book with a seven in the page count: Counterfeit ★★★
Jackie wrote: "Dixie wrote: "June completed - Dixie(I went all out on this one because I'm going to be traveling for half of July - I won't get this much done next month for sure!)
1. National Ballpoint Pen Day..."
Thanks Jackie.
JUNE ✅ COMPLETED1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
a. A book with a writing utensil on the cover
b. a book written under a pen name
✅c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian: The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
2. National Prune Day
a. A book written by someone over the age of 60
✅b. A book with more than 400 pages: Table for Two by Amor Towles
c. A book with purple on the cover
3. Let's Catch a Movie
a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM
✅b. A book that has been adapted into a movie or series: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
c. A book published in the last two years
4. Happy Birthday, Paul Gaugin
a. A book with at least 4 colors on the cover
✅b. A translated book: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov
c. A book with a seven in the page count
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Nancyj - June entry
June
✅1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian
The Red Notebook
✅2. National Prune Day
a. A book written by someone over the age of 60
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (dob 1939, pub date 2005, so she was 65-66)
✅3. Let's Catch a Movie
c. A book published in the last two years
The Seven Year Slip June 2023 by Ashley Poston
✅4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
b. A translated book
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Nancyj - July entry
July
✅1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
a. A book whose author's initials appear in CURVEBALL (EUR)
The Lost Wife - Alyson Richman
✅2. The Apollo Moon Landing
c. A book published in the 1960s
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
✅3. Let's Go on a Hike
a. A book with a cover of a nature scene without people
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
b. A book set in a rural area
Visitation
✅4. Dog Days of Summer
c. An author's first book
The Eyre Affair
1. National Ballpoint Pen Day c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian
Perfect Strangers by JT Geissinger
2. National Prune Day
c. A book with purple on the cover
Melt For You by JT Geissinger
3. Let's Catch a Movie
a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM
How To Say I Do by Tal Bauer
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
a. A book with at least 4 colors on the cover
Happy Place by Emily Henry
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Laura Z's July Challenge1. Happy Birthday, Satchel Paige
✅a. A book by an author whose initials appear in CURVEBALL: Very Bad Company (Emma Rosenblum) ★★★
✅b. A book featuring a sport: Fangirl Down, Tessa Bailey ★★★★
✅c. A book with a Black main character: A Woman Of Endurance, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa ★★★
2. The Apollo Moon Landing
✅a. A book set in space: The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer ★★★
✅b. A book with the moon on the cover: How To Start A Fire, Lisa Lutz ★★
✅c. A book published in the 1960s: A Single Man ★★★★
3. Let’s Go on a Hike
✅a. A book with a cover of a nature scene without people: North Woods ★★★
✅b. A book set in a rural area: Murder Road, Simone St. James ★★★★
✅c. A book with an element of survival: Camp Zero, Michelle Min Sterling ★★★★
4. The Dog Days of Summer
✅a. A book with a dog on the cover: Perestroika in Paris, Jane Smiley ★★★
✅b. A book with a hot setting: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World ★★★★★
✅c. An author’s first book: A Short Walk Through a Wide World ★★★★
Laura Z's August Challenge:1. The Destruction of Pompeii
✅a. A book featuring an ancient civilization: Kaikeyi ★★★
✅b. A book with red on the cover: Listen for the Lie, Amy Tintera ★★★★★
✅c. A book set in a city (Murano): The Glassmaker, Tracy Chevalier ★★★★
2. Vacation Time
✅a. A book you’ve been meaning to read: The Broken Girls ★★★★
✅b. A book by a favorite author: Shades of Grey ★★★★★
✅c. A book set somewhere you would like to visit (Madrid): The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo ★★★★
3. Let’s Play a Game
✅a. A book with multiple points of view: Weyward, Emilia Hart ★★★★
✅b. A book by an author whose initials appear in SCRABBLE: Before We Were Innocent, Ella Berman ★★★★
✅c. A book in a series: Rivers of London ★★★★★
4. Back to School Sales
✅a. A book borrowed from the library: Marilou is Everywhere ★★★
✅b. A nonfiction book: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy, Stephanie Kelton ★★★★
✅c. A book with a character in an educational setting: The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield, Kathy Cooperman ★★
Anna B's June1c) A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian- Yellowface
- main character is an author
2b) A book with more than 400 pages- A Little Life
- 720 pages
3b) A book that has been adapted into a movie or series- The Pale Horse
- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pal...
4b) A translated book- Candide
- from French!
Verity H, June entry1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
✅c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian The Modern Fairies about Charles Perrault and other writers of fairy tales, finished 15 June 2024
2. National Prune Day
✅b. A book with more than 400 pages The Mystery Guest (416 pages) finished 9 June 2024
3. Let's Catch a Movie
✅a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life by Fintan O’Toole (FOT) finished 9 June 2024
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
✅b. A translated book The Noh Mask Murder, translated from Japanese to English, finished 2 June 2024
Verity H, July entry1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
✅c. A book with a black main character The Girl with the Louding Voice finished 12 July 2024
2. The Apollo Moon Landing
✅b. A book with the moon on the cover The Launch Party finished 28 June 2024
3. Let's Go on a Hike
✅b. A book set in a rural area Hagstone set on a remote Irish island, finished 13 June 2024
4. Dog Days of Summer
✅c. An author's first book Piglet by Lottie Hazell finished 20 June 2024
Verity H, August entry1. The Destruction of Pompeii
✅c. A book set in a city The Mirror of Simple Souls set in Paris finished on 24 June 2024
2. Vacation Time
✅c. A book set somewhere you would like to visit The Long Water set in Norway, finished 30 June 2024
3. Let's Play a Game
✅b. A book by an author whose initials appear in SCRABBLE
4. Back to School Sales
✅b. A nonfiction book Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry finished 15 June 2024
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1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
✅a. A book whose author's initials appear in CURVEBALL The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung finished 16 June 2024
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Verity for the author initials, you would need two C's in CURVEBALL to use Catherine Chung. Same thing for SCRABBLE and Sofia Slater. If you need to move stuff around, let me know; otherwise I've counted your June.
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July 1 Happy Birthday, Satchel Paige
a. An author whose initials appear in CURVEBALL
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère
2 The Apollo Moon Landing
b. A book with the moon on the cover
3 Let's go on a hike
c. A book with an element of survival
Fourteen Days
(the characters are locked down in a New York apartment building during the Covid pandemic in Spring 2020)
Dog Days of Summer
b. A book with a hot setting
Untold Night and Day
(From the Goodreads introduction: ...[set]in the sweltering heat of Seoul at the height of the summer...)
JULY | Entry • Victoria[4/4 Prompts Completed, as of July 6]
1 🎧✔️Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, Cat Bohannon (3a)
2 ✔️The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (2c)
3 ✔️Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Danielle Dutton (3b)
4 ✔️ Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval (4c)
5 ✔️ Elektrik: Caribbean Writing, Mireille Jean-Gilles, et al. (1c)
6 ✔️ Bad Thoughts, Nada Alic (3c)
Extra Books (read in July):
7 ✔️ Alan Kitching’s A-Z of Letterpress, Kitching
8 ✔️ The Secret Life of the Pencil: Great Creatives and Their Pencils, Alex Hammond, Mike Tinney
9 ✔️ The Unseen Saul Leiter, Margit Erb (ed.), Michael Parillo (ed.), Saul Leiter
10 ✔️ The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems, Susan Howe (Preface), Jen Bervin (Editor), Emily Dickinson
11 ✔️ Drawing is Everything: Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute, Édouard Knopp, John Elderfield, Richard Shiff
12 ✔️ Self-Portrait in Green, Marie NDiaye
1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige ✔️
a. A book whose author's initials appear in CURVEBALL
c. A book with a black main character
✔️ Elektrik: Caribbean Writing, Mireille Jean-Gilles, et al.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
2. The Apollo Moon Landing ✔️
c. A book published in the 1960s
✔️The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (1963)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514
3. Let's Go on a Hike ✔️✔️✔️
a. A book with a cover of a nature scene without people
✔️ Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, Cat Bohannon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
b. A book set in a rural area
✔️ Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Danielle Dutton
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
c. A book with an element of survival
✔️ Bad Thoughts, Nada Alic
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
4. Dog Days of Summer ✔️
c. An author's first book
✔️ Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
July completedJuly
1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
√b. A book featuring a sport Snowman: The True Story of a Champion
2. The Apollo Moon Landing
√c. A book published in the 1960s The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
3. Let's Go on a Hike
√a. A book with a cover of a nature scene without people
The Gift of the Deer4. Dog Days of Summer
√b. A book with a hot setting The Puma Years
August completedAugust
1. The Destruction of Pompeii
√b. A book with red on the cover
2. Vacation Time
√b. A book by a favorite author The Wonder Engine
3. Let's Play a Game
√c. A book in a series The Story of Doctor Dolittle
4. Back to School Sales
√b. A nonfiction book What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
JULY1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
b. A book featuring a sport
Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar, Shawn Michaels2. The Apollo Moon Landing
b. A book with the moon on the cover
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann3. Let's Go on a Hike
c. A book with an element of survival
The Arctic Fury, Greer Macallister4. Dog Days of Summer
a. A book with a dog on the cover
Royally Dispatched: An Amateur Female Duchess Detective, P.C. James
Rose W completed for August 2024:1b - The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson -
2c - The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden - The Netherlands
3a - The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan - POV: Sofie, Katie, Juliet
4b - Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders
Only the month of July yet to read
July1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
b. A book featuring a sport
Adrian Bradley's Biggest Mistake by Catherine Cloud
2. The Apollo Moon Landing
b. A book with the moon on the cover
The Unhoneymooners Christina Lauren
3. Let's Go on a Hike
b. A book set in a rural area
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
4. Dog Days of Summer
b. A book with a hot setting
Float Plan Trish Doller
June is done!1b. A book written under a pen name - Ceremony in Death by JD Robb
2a. A book written by someone over the age of 60 - You Like It Darker by Stephen King
3a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
4a. A book with at least 4 colors on the cover -
by Brendan Slocumb
My last set, now complete :)July
1b. A book featuring a sport
+Be My Endgame by Zarah Detand (features soccer) (07-02-24)
2a. A book set in space
+Renegade Love by Ann Aguirre (takes place on a space ship and a space station) (07-07-24)
3c. A book with an element of survival
+ Mort(e) by Robert Repino (about a war between humans and sentient animals) (06-01-24)
4c. An author's first book
+Bird Box by Josh Malerman (06-14-24)
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June1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian:
The main character, Harriet and her daughter open a new bookstore in their community.
The Bookstore at Rivers End by Phillipa Nefri Clark - Read 28 June
2. National Prune Day
b. A book with more than 400 pages:
The paper back version of this book has 432 pages
Devotion by Hannah Kent - Read 17 June
3. Let's Catch a Movie
a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM:
The White Forest Killings by Simon McCleave - Read 11 June
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
b. A translated book see FAQ
This book has been translated from Swedish to English
Closed Circles by Viveca Sten - Read 15 June
Tracy S: JUNE ENTRY
1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian
Going Zero: Main character is a librarian in a competition (finished July 2)
2. National Prune Day
b. A book with more than 400 pages
The Kingdoms: 448 pages on Kindle (finished June 8)
3. Let's Catch a Movie
c. A book published in the last two years
Quantum Radio: published March 2023 (finished June 18)
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
b. A translated book
The Murmur of Bees: Mexican author, translated from Spanish into English (finished June 29)
Thank you!
Edited to add "read by" dates
🍉July🍉1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
b. A book featuring a sport
✅Murder at the Olympics: a 1920s cozy historical mystery - Lee Strauss ⭐⭐⭐
2. The Apollo Moon Landing
b. A book with the moon on the cover
✅The Oceanography of the Moon - Glendy Vanderah ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Let's Go on a Hike
b. A book set in a rural area
✅In the Distance - Hernan Diaz [American West] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Dog Days of Summer
c. An author's first book
✅The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde is an English novelist, whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. - from jasperfforde.com
June1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2. National Prune Day
c. A book with purple on the cover
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
3. Let's Catch a Movie
a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM
Missing by K.L. Slater
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
c. A book with a seven in the page count
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (176 pages)
July
1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
c. A book with a black main character
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. The Apollo Moon Landing
a. A book set in space
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
3. Let's Go on a Hike
c. A book with an element of survival
Network Effect by Martha Wells
4. Dog Days of Summer
b. A book with a hot setting
Blockade Billy by Stephen King (baseball is a summer sport) - or -
Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward (the bulk of the book is during a coastal Mississippi summer)
August
1. The Destruction of Pompeii
b. A book with red on the cover
Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2. Vacation Time
b. A book by a favorite author
Elevation by Stephen King
3. Let's Play a Game
b. A book by an author whose initials appear in SCRABBLE
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
4. Back to School Sales
b. A nonfiction book
Catching the Light by Joy Harjo
JUNE DONE!!1B A book written under a pen name
86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 1 Asato Asato (The author says so in the book's afterword)
2C A book with purple on the cover
Naoya Matsumoto3B A book that has been adapted into a movie or series
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 2 Ren Eguchi
4B A translated book
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 4
AUGUST ✅ COMPLETED1. The Destruction of Pompeii
a. A book featuring an ancient civilization
b. A book with red on the cover
✅ c. A book set in a city: The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang
2. Vacation Time
a. A book you've been meaning to read
b. A book by a favorite author
✅ c. A book set somewhere you would like to visit: Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife by Alison Weir
3. Let's Play a Game
a. A book with multiple points of view
b. A book by an author whose initials appear in SCRABBLE
✅ c. A book in a series: Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks by Kelsie Stelting
4. Back to School Sales
a. A book borrowed from the library
✅ b. A nonfiction book: Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams
c. A book with a character in an educational setting
Mod
July is done!1c. A book with a black main character - The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
2a. A book set in space - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (set on a fictional planet in another galaxy)
3b. A book set in a rural area - All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda - rural town in NC
4a. A book with a dog on the cover
On to round 2 for each month, even though I won't get extra raffle tickets.
Editing because I changed the book for 3b, I moved Dead Tired to something else for my second round.
LYNN's completed August prompts! (By the way, I don't see me in the initial listing with anything completed! I now have June and August completed.)
August
4 of 4
1. The Destruction of Pompeii
Pompeii was a Roman city that was buried under volcanic ash and pumice during the eruption of Mt Vesuvius on August 24, 79 CE sometime in the autumn, based on recent archaeological finds. Because of the particular method of its destruction it is extremely well preserved and offers a unique look at life in the ancient Roman Empire.
a. A book featuring an ancient civilization
b. A book with red on the cover
c. A book set in a city
The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #18) by Alexander McCall Smith
June 16 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Vacation Time
Fun fact: 60% of the Earth's lakes are located in Canada. Something to think about next time you're by a lake.
a. A book you've been meaning to read
Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos (Meg Langslow #4) by Donna Andrews
June 23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
b. A book by a favorite author
c. A book set somewhere you would like to visit
3. Let's Play a Game
Fun fact: In Chile the Clue character Mr. Green is named Chef Lettuce.
a. A book with multiple points of view
b. A book by an author whose initials appear in SCRABBLE
c. A book in a series
Murder with Peacocks (Meg Langslow #1) by Donna Andrews
June 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Back to School Sales
Fun fact: in 2023 the average American household spent $890 on back to school shopping, according to an online survey. Ok, that one's not actually that fun.
a. A book borrowed from the library
b. A nonfiction book
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
July 8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
c. A book with a character in an educational setting
LYNN's completed July prompts!! July
4 of 4
1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
Baseball pitcher Leroy R. (Satchel) Paige (1906-1982) was the first African American pitcher in the American League. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.
a. A book whose author's initials appear in CURVEBALL
b. A book featuring a sport
c. A book with a black main character
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
June 15 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. The Apollo Moon Landing
Apollo 11, the first manned landing on Earth's moon, touched down on the surface on July 20, 1969.
a. A book set in space
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers
July 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
b. A book with the moon on the cover
c. A book published in the 1960s
3. Let's Go on a Hike
Fun fact: Yellowstone National Park averages 1 bear attack per year, and there have only been 8 bear-caused fatalities in park history. For perspective that is 1 bear attack per 26.2 million park visits.
a. A book with a cover of a nature scene without people
b. A book set in a rural area
c. A book with an element of survival
The China Garden by Liz Berry ⭐⭐⭐⭐
June 8
4. Dog Days of Summer
Fun fact: this phrase refers to the time when Sirius the dog star is visible in the sky.
a. A book with a dog on the cover
b. A book with a hot setting
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
July 7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
c. An author's first book
Sheyanne C.June: 4/4
1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
✅b. A book written under a pen name
Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray (Amy Vincent is the author's real name)2. National Prune Day
✅c. A book with purple on the cover
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray3. Let's Catch a Movie
✅a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM
The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger 4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
✅a. A book with at least 4 colors on the cover
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn HammondAugust: 4/4
1. The Destruction of Pompeii
✅b. A book with red on the cover
The Whole Enchilada by Diane Mott Davidson2. Vacation Time
✅b. A book by a favorite author
I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney3. Let's Play a Game
✅b. A book by an author whose initials appear in SCRABBLE
Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay4. Back to School Sales
✅a. A book borrowed from the library
What Rose Forgot by Nevada BarrJune and August are completed!
June completed! - Jane J.1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
A book written under a pen name - The Atlas Complex - Olivie Blake
2. National Prune Day
A book with purple on the cover - The Dixon Rule- Elle Kennedy
3. Let's Catch a Movie
A book published in the last two years - If Only I Had Told Her - Laura Nowlin
4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
A book with a seven in the page count - The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman (hardcover copy 377 pages)
I’ve updated message 72 and 73 with (hopefully) valid replacements for the non-qualifying entries for my July and August submissions. Mods, please would you let me know if the substitutions are ok?
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(I went all out on this one because I'm going to be traveling for half of July - I won't get this much done next month for sure!)
1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
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Just to be clear, you'll only get 1 raffle for June...so if you want to reassign some books to other months you absolutely can. I checked off the 'a' books for each category.