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The lyrebird can mimic almost any sounds it hears — including chainsaws.
Wildlife watchers have recorded the Australian species copying not only other birds but other animals, like koalas, and artificial sounds such as car alarms and camera shutters.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
📸 1. Read a book set in Australia.
📸 2. Read a book where one book seems to mimic another in plot or design.
📸 3. Read a book with a piece of machinery on the cover.
📸 4. Read a book with the word CAR or CAMERA found in the text.
Completion Post -#29: The Lyrebird Option 1Book: Hunter Hunted by Keri Arthur
Pages: 331
How Book Qualified: Set in Australia.
Date Read: Aug 3
Rating/Review: 4 stars
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The Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling & Wake is an annual event that takes place each spring near Gloucester, England and involves a 9 pound round of cheese, which is rolled from the top of a hill.
Competitors race after the cheese and the first person to reach the finish line at the bottom wins the cheese.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🧀 1. Read a book where a character eats cheese, or does something foolish.
🧀 2. Read a book set at least partially in England.
🧀 3. Read a book with all the letters of SPRING in the title.
🧀 4. Read a book with a 9 in the page count or publication date.
Completion Post -#12: Cheese Rolling Option 4Book: Satisfaction Guaranteed by Lauren Blakely
Pages: 296
How Book Qualified: 9 in the page count.
Date Read: Sep 12
Rating/Review: 2 stars
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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.
Completion Post -#16: M&Ms Option 4Book: Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston
Pages: 384
How Book Qualified: MMC name is Sebastian
Date Read: Sep 19
Rating/Review: 3 stars
Next number: #18 please
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Cycleball is also known as “Radball” and is essentially a game of football (or ‘soccer’ depending on which country you’re from) played on bicycles.
Unlike traditional football, however, players use the bike to control, flick, and move the ball into the opposing team’s goal. The bikes used have fixed gears with no brakes and there tends to be 2 players on each team.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🚴♀️ 1. Read a book with two main/major characters.
🚴♀️ 2. Read a book that has also been known by another title.
🚴♀️ 3. Read a book with a bicycle on the cover.
🚴♀️ 4. Read a book where the author's first initial is NOT found in FIXED GEARS.
Completion Post -#18: Cycleball Option 1Book: Caribbean Crush by R.S. Grey
Pages: 296
How Book Qualified: Two MCs
Date Read: Sep 26
Rating/Review: 3.5 stars
Hi Michelle, can I please get my next prompt?
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Ridiculously Random Prompt #10: National Animal of Scotland
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
Yes, although it's a fabled creature, the national animal of Scotland is actually the mythical unicorn — chosen because of its association with dominance and chivalry as well as purity and innocence in Celtic mythology. BRB, moving to Scotland real quick.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🦄 1. Read a book set in Scotland.
🦄 2. Read a book with all the letters of UNICORN found in the title.
🦄 3. Read a book tagged MYTHOLOGY any number of times.
🦄 4. Read a book where the author's first initial is NOT found in CELTIC.
Completion Post -#10: Unicorn Option 4Book: A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie
Pages: 384
How Book Qualified: Author First Initial is D - not found in CELTIC
Date Read: Oct 6
Rating/Review: 4 stars
Thank you for your efforts Michelle!Next prompt: #26 please.
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A baby puffin is called a "puffling."
To feed its chick, a puffin parent will carry around 10 fish in its beak at one time, but the biggest recorded haul is a whopping 62 fish, according to Audubon Project Puffin.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🐠 1. Read a book with a bird on the cover.
🐠 2. Read a book where the MC is a parent.
🐠 3. Read a book with a 6 and a 2 in the page count.
🐠 4. Read a book with all the letters of PUFFIN found in the title/subtitle.
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A Killing of Innocents (other topics)Caribbean Crush (other topics)
Sounds Like Love (other topics)
Satisfaction Guaranteed (other topics)
Hunter Hunted (other topics)
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Book: Love, in English by Karina Halle
Pages: 456
How Book Qualified: About 30% set in Vancouver, Canada.
Date Read: July 29
Rating/Review: 1 stars