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BOOK: ➤ Heartbreak Hotel
AUTHOR: Jonathan Kellerman
DATE READ: 08/24/25
PAGES/RATING: 399 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🐌 2. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in SNAIL.
HOW IT FITS:
- Alex
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The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.
Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor were married for 18 years until Allwine's death in 2009.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🐭 1. Read a book where someone dies.
🐭 2. Read a book published in 2009.
🐭 3. Read a book with a 1 and an 8 in the page count.
🐭 4. Read a book with some type of animal on the cover.
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BOOK: ➤ Over Your Dead Body
AUTHOR: Dan Wells
DATE READ: 08/25/25
PAGES/RATING: 304 |
TASK: 📔 🐭 1. Read a book where someone dies.
HOW IT FITS:
Multiple people killed/died in this book
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Extreme Ironing is considered a ‘danger sport’ in which people take ironing boards to various, often remote, locations to iron clothes and take a picture.
Some of the locations have included cliff tops, underwater, in the middle of a motorway, and also while skiing and parachuting.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🧺 1. Read a book where the MC has a dangerous career/hobby.
🧺 2. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in EXTREME.
🧺 3. Read a book set at least partially in a remote location.
🧺 4. Read a book where a character irons or does other household chores.
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BOOK: ➤ The Whispers
AUTHOR: Ashley Audrain
DATE READ: 08/29/25
PAGES/RATING: 336 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 🧺 4. Read a book where a character irons or does other household chores.
HOW IT FITS:
A lot of laundry, cooking, etc, from multiple characters
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There's a world record for the most world record titles.
It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🥇 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
🥇 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
🥇 4. Read a book of your choice.
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BOOK: ➤ Spiral of Need (Mercury Pack)
AUTHOR: Suzanne Wright
DATE READ: 09/01/25
PAGES/RATING: 322 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
HOW IT FITS:
19,894 ratings1,214 reviews
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Bog Snorkelling takes place in a 55-metre-long water-filled trench carved out of a peat bog (comprised of dead plant material).
Competitors wear snorkels and flippers and cannot use traditional swimming techniques, but rather must rely solely on flipper power to get across and back. Kirsty Johnson set the record back in 2014 with a time of 1 minute and 22.56 seconds.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🤿 1. Read a book published in 2014.
🤿 2. Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in SNORKELLING.
🤿 3. Read a book with some type of plant material on the cover.
🤿 4. Read a book that does not follow a "traditional" style. {dual-timelines, epistolary, etc.}
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BOOK: ➤ Tea with Jam & Dread
AUTHOR: Vicki Delaney
DATE READ: 09/02/25
PAGES/RATING: 296 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🤿 3. Read a book with some type of plant material on the cover.
There is a vase with plant on cover
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About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine.
That's approximately 2.6 pounds, if you're wondering how much "fruit" you get when you uncork your favorite red.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🍇 1. Read a book with less than 700 reviews on Goodreads.
🍇 2. Read a book with a red or purple cover. {Your discretion.}
🍇 3. Read a book with a 2 and a 6 in the publication date.
🍇 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in UNCORK.
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BOOK: ➤ Way of the Wolf
AUTHOR: Lindsay Buroker
DATE READ: 09/04/24
PAGES/RATING: 228 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 🍇 1. Read a book with less than 700 reviews on Goodreads.
HOW IT FITS:
196 reviews
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M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.
Forrest Mars (son of the Mars Company founder) first spotted the British confection Smarties during the Spanish Civil War and noticed the candy shell prevented the chocolate from melting. He teamed up with Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey Chocolate's president) and the company later trademarked the "Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand" slogan.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🔴 1. Read a book with an alliterative title.
🔴 2. Read a book with at least two men on the cover.
🔴 3. Read a book tagged SPACE any number of times.
🔴 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in HERSHEY.
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BOOK: ➤ Alien: Out of the Shadows
AUTHOR: Tim Lebbon
DATE READ: 09/10/25
PAGES/RATING: 352 |
TASK: 📔 🔴 3. Read a book tagged SPACE any number of times.
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Only one NFL team has a plant for a logo.
The New Orleans Saints' fleur-de-lis is actually a stylized lily historically associated with the French monarchy. It's also the state symbol of Louisiana and appears on the Quebec flag.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
⚜️ 1. Read a book where a character plays or watches football.
⚜️ 2. Read a book set in Louisiana, France, or Canada.
⚜️ 3. Read a book with a logo or a flag on the cover.
⚜️ 4. Read a book with all the letters of MONARCHY in the title.
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BOOK: ➤ Her Scream in the Silence
AUTHOR: Denise Grover Swank
DATE READ: 09/30/25
PAGES/RATING: 382 | ★★★★★
TASK: 📔 ⚜️ 1. Read a book where a character plays or watches football.
HOW IT FITS:
Football is watched in the bar
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The Running of the Bulls takes place in the summer in Pamplona, Spain.
The event involves patrons running in front of 6 bulls that have been let loose in the town’s streets. Every year between 50-100 injuries are reported with 15 deaths reported since 1910.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🐂 1. Read a book with an animal on the cover.
🐂 2. Read a book where multiple characters die.
🐂 3. Read a book with between 50,000 and 100,000 Goodreads ratings.
🐂 4. Read a book set mostly in the summer.
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BOOK: ➤ The Stand
AUTHOR: Stephen King
DATE READ: 10/05/25
PAGES/RATING: 1152 |
TASK: 📔 🐂 2. Read a book where multiple characters die.
HOW IT FITS:
Many die in this book
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Apple Pie isn't actually American at all.
The next time you call something "as American as apple pie," you might want to consider the fact that neither apple pies nor apples originally came from America. Apples are in fact native to Asia, and the first recorded recipe for apple pie was actually written in England.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🥧 1. Read a book set in America, England, or Asia.
🥧 2. Read a book that includes a recipe.
🥧 3. Read a book with a cliché in the text.
🥧 4. Read a book with an apple or other fruit on the cover.
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BOOK: ➤ We Live Here Now
AUTHOR: Sarah Pinborough
DATE READ: 10/12/25
PAGES/RATING: 291 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🥧 1. Read a book set in America, England, or Asia.
HOW IT FITS:
London
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Unsurprisingly, Chess Boxing involves both the classic game of chess and the popular sport of boxing.
The competitors alternate between 5 rounds of boxing and 6 rounds of chess for a total of 11 rounds, each lasting 3-minutes. The game was inspired by a French comic and invented by Dutch artist Lepe Rubingh.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🥊 1. Read a book where a character plays chess or another board game.
🥊 2. Read a book that has a French or a Dutch translation.
🥊 3. Read a book with an MPG of HUMOR or COMEDY.
🥊 4. Read a book with the word boxing {can also be box, boxes, boxed, etc.} found in the text.
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BOOK: ➤ Slaying Monsters for the Feeble
AUTHOR: Annette Marie
DATE READ: 10/19/25
PAGES/RATING: 358 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 🥊 1. Read a book where a character plays chess or another board game.
HOW IT FITS:
They try to amuse Zylas with board gamess and puzzles
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The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly 1 in 649,740.
Poker fiends have a slightly better chance of laying down a straight flush: Try 72,192 to 1. Out of the 7,462 distinct five-card poker hands, you have a 42% chance of getting a single pair though.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🃏 1. Read a book where a character plays a hand of cards.
🃏 2. Read a book with a bathroom scene.
🃏 3. Read a book with the word ROYAL found in the text.
🃏 4. Read a book with more than 649,740 ratings.
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BOOK: ➤ Dressed in Smoke
AUTHOR: Ambrose Ibsen
DATE READ: 10/25/25
PAGES/RATING: 265 | ★★★★★
TASK: 📔 🃏 2. Read a book with a bathroom scene.
HOW IT FITS:
Jonathan is attacked in bathroom in his apartment
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Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.
They're just like human newborns making funny faces, except a tad bigger.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🐘 1. Read a book you found comforting.
🐘 2. Read a book with an animal on the cover.
🐘 3. Read a book tagged FUNNY any number of times.
🐘 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in NEWBORNS.
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BOOK: ➤ Vampire Child
AUTHOR: Ruby Jean Jensen
DATE READ: 10/27/25
PAGES/RATING: 288 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🐘 2. Read a book with an animal on the cover.
HOW IT FITS:
Bat
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If you drive south from Detroit, you'll hit Canada.
Head north from Windsor, Ontario, crossing the Detroit River, and you'll reach the good ol' US of A.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🇨🇦 1. Read a book set in Michigan.
🇨🇦 2. Read a book with a cityscape on the cover.
🇨🇦 3. Read a book with a directional word in the title.
🇨🇦 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in WINDSOR.
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BOOK: ➤ Any Witch Wolf
AUTHOR: CP Rider
DATE READ: 11/03/25
PAGES/RATING: 296 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 🇨🇦 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in WINDSOR.
HOW IT FITS:
MC is Betty
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A team of six women programmed the first digital computer.
While historians have only recently recognized their achievements (or female discoveries credited to men), the female mathematicians participated in a World War II program coding instructions into the revolutionary Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC).
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
⌨️ 1. Read a book with a strong female lead.
⌨️ 2. Read a book with all the letters of ENIAC found in the title.
⌨️ 3. Read a book set during World War II.
⌨️ 4. Read a book where a character uses a computer.
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BOOK: ➤ Wicked Witch of the Wolf
AUTHOR: C.P. Rider
DATE READ: 11/04/25
PAGES/RATING: 302 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 ⌨️ 1. Read a book with a strong female lead.
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Baby sea otters can't swim right away.
Their moms will wrap them in pieces of kelp while they hunt until the buoyant pups learn how to paddle around on their own. A raft of otters will also hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart!
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🦦 1. Read a book where someone swims.
🦦 2. Read a book with people holding hands on the cover.
🦦 3. Read a book with the word SLEEP found in the text.
🦦 4. Read a book MC's first initial is found in BUOYANT.
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BOOK: ➤ We'll Never Tell
AUTHOR: Wendy Heard
DATE READ: 11/07/25
PAGES/RATING: 320 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 🦦 3. Read a book with the word SLEEP found in the text.
HOW IT FITS:
Page 5
his babies?” “I’ll kill you in your sleep.”
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Surprisingly, the sporting event of climbing a greased-up slippery pole is quite common around the world.
These traditional events are essentially the same - there is a long pole covered in grease, lard, or some other lubricant, and participants attempt to climb or walk along the pole to get to the other end, where there may be a prize or flag to recover.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🎁 1. Read a book where a character climbs something.
🎁 2. Read a book where the title does NOT start with a letter in GREASY POLE.
🎁 3. Read a book where the MC wins a prize of any type.
🎁 4. Read a book with the word FLAG found in the text.
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BOOK: ➤ Don't Cheat Me
AUTHOR: Jackie May
DATE READ: 01/15/25
PAGES/RATING: 298 |
TASK: 📔 🎁 2. Read a book where the title does NOT start with a letter in GREASY POLE.
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The moon has its own time zones.
An astronomer even designed a special watch that relies on "lunations," or the amount of time it takes for the moon to revolve and rotate around the Earth.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🌙 1. Read a book with a moon, watch, or clock on the cover.
🌙 2. Read a book with the word REVOLVE or ROTATE found in the text.
🌙 3. Read a book where the MC's first name ENDS with a letter in EARTH.
🌙 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in LUNATIONS.
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BOOK: ➤ Lonesome Dove
AUTHOR: Larry McMurty
DATE READ: 11/20/25
PAGES/RATING: 960 |
TASK: 📔
🌙 3. Read a book where the MC's first name ENDS with a letter in EARTH.
🌙 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in LUNATIONS.
HOW IT FITS:
Lonesome Dove (L); Augustus Mcrae
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The largest sand castle in the world measured 54 feet high.
It took 168 trucks over a week to deliver enough sand for this carefully sculpted masterpiece.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🏝 1. Read a book with sand visible on the cover.
🏝 2. Read a book with a 5 OR a 4 in the page count.
🏝 3. Read a book with a 1, 6, AND 8 in the publication date.
🏝 4. Read a book that took place over more than a week's time.
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BOOK: ➤ Magic in Those Eyes
AUTHOR: Jackie May
DATE READ: 11/26/25
PAGES/RATING: 328 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 🏝 4. Read a book that took place over more than a week's time.
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Quidditch was invented by J.K. Rowling in her Harry Potter series and involves 2 teams of 7 players mounted on broomsticks with 4 different balls and goals on either side of the pitch.
The game has since been adapted for the real world with the ultimate goal being to score more goals than the other team before the ‘snitch’ is caught.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🧹 1. Read a book where one character snitches on another.
🧹 2. Read a book that is part of a series.
🧹 3. Read a book where the author uses initials in their name.
🧹 4. Read a book with a storyline that could be adapted into a board game or a real-life game.
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BOOK: ➤ Just Dare Me
AUTHOR: Jackie May
DATE READ: 11/29/25
PAGES/RATING: 269 | ★★★★★
TASK: 📔🧹 2. Read a book that is part of a series.
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Parkour is the act of running, jumping, swinging, climbing, etc. based on military obstacle course training techniques.
It is often practiced in urban environments with the aim of getting from one point to another as quickly and as efficiently as possible without the use of specialized equipment.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🏃🏼♀️ 1. Read a book with a character who is in the military.
🏃🏼♀️ 2. Read a book set in an urban environment.
🏃🏼♀️ 3. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PARKOUR.
🏃🏼♀️ 4. Read a book with any of these words in the text: running, jumping, swinging, climbing. {variations accepted}
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BOOK: ➤ A Drop of Corruption
AUTHOR: Robert Jackson Bennett
DATE READ: 12/01/25
PAGES/RATING: 458 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🏃🏼♀️ 3. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PARKOUR.
HOW IT FITS:
Starts with an A
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There's a word for animals with partial pigment loss.
Albinism is the congenital absence of any pigmentation or coloration, but leucism is a different rare condition where some pattern or color remains.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🦒 1. Read a book without much color on the cover. {Your discretion.}
🦒 2. Read a book where the author's LAST initial is found in LEUCISM.
🦒 3. Read a book where a character has a rare condition.
🦒 4. Read a book where all the letters of PIGMENT are found in the title.
Snail Racing is essentially a race between ordinary garden snails, with snail racing events taking place around the world.
The snails tend to race on a 13 - 14 inch circular track and start in the center with the winning snail being the first to reach the perimeter. Racing numbers or stickers are often put on the shells in order to distinguish each competitor.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🐌 1. Read a book with the word CRAWL in the text.
🐌 2. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in SNAIL.
🐌 3. Read a book where the author's last initial is found in GARDEN.
🐌 4. Read a book where the publisher's name starts with a letter in SHELL.