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ParticipantsAngel
Bev (baglady)
Book Concierge
Brenda
Catsalive
Denise
Ed
Frankie
Jan
Jonquil
Mary
Olivermagnus
Ruth
Susan
Tari
Teri-k
Trish
My SpotManama Spell and Search
October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Words to Choose From:
Manama
Western
Middle East
Gulf
National
Museum
Monarchy
Causeway
Bridge
Nightlife
Postmodern
Ancient
Graves
Polished
Fort
Mound
Empire
Souq(k)
Narrow
Bustling
Corner
Pipes
Adviser
Chai
Gold
City
Glitters
Siren
Pocketbook
Chains
House
Quran
Script
Islam
Manuscript
Calligraphy
Miniature
Diverse
Places
Worship
Colorful
Conqueror
Million
Option Two: Word Search - Please Read Below Note
Find FIFTEEN of the above words. NOTE: If the word above is plural, you must find the plural version in the text. They can only be found within the text of the book - no covers, titles or authors, please. For each word you find, please provide the book title, page or location, and the sentence or phrase containing the word. Good Luck!
Manama Spell and SearchOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Option One: Choose one or more of the below words to spell out this month. You can use any of the following to complete a letter:
1. First letter of the Book's title
2. First letter of the Author's first or last name
3. First letter of a Main Character's first or last name
00/12 Completed
Museum
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02.U
03.S
04.E
05.U
06.M
Places
07.P
08.L
09.A
10.C
11.E
12.S
Manama Spell and SearchOctober 2025
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Manama Spell October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Middle East
Manama Spell and SearchDuration: 1/10/25 - 31/10/25
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M Murder at the Wild Haggis Bookshop by Jackie Baldwin
A Death on Dickens Island by Allison Brook
N Bleak Valley by Neil Webb
U The Underworld by Sofie Laguna
S The House on the Cliff by Victoria Scott
C Crow by Rhonda McCoy
R The Lucky Sisters by Rachael Johns
I The Children of Zagreb by Lelita Baldock MC Ilona
P The Funeral Crashers by Joanna Nell MC Martin Pottinger
T Think Twice by Harlan Coben
Manama Spell and SearchOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Words to Choose From:
Manama
Western
Middle East
Gulf
National
Museum
Monarchy
Causeway
Bridge
Nightlife
Postmodern
Ancient
Graves
Polished
Fort
Mound
Empire
Souq(k)
Narrow
Bustling
Corner
Pipes
Adviser
Chai
Gold
City
Glitters
Siren
Pocketbook
Chains
House
Quran
Script
Islam
Manuscript
Calligraphy
Miniature
Diverse
Places
Worship
Colorful
Conqueror
Million
Manama Spell and SearchOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Manama S*P*E*L*L Out
Manama
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MANAMA Word Search
Begins: 01Oct25 / Ends: 31Oct25
Words to Choose From:
Manama
Western
Middle East
Gulf
National
Museum
Monarchy
Causeway
Bridge
Nightlife
Postmodern
Ancient
Graves
Polished
Fort
Mound
Empire
Souq(k)
Narrow
Bustling
Corner
Pipes
Adviser
Chai
Gold
City
Glitters
Siren
Pocketbook
Chains
House
Quran
Script
Islam
Manuscript
Calligraphy
Miniature
Diverse
Places
Worship
Colorful
Conqueror
Million
Option Two: Word Search - Please Read Below Note
Find FIFTEEN of the above words. NOTE: If the word above is plural, you must find the plural version in the text. They can only be found within the text of the book - no covers, titles or authors, please. For each word you find, please provide the book title, page or location, and the sentence or phrase containing the word. Good Luck!
I'm in here, too, and spelling only. Words TBC, although I probably won't managed three again this month.
I'm doing both spell and word searchManama S*P*E*L*L Out
Begins: 01Oct25 / Ends: 31Oct25
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MANAMA Word Search
Begins: 01Oct25 / Ends: 31Oct25
(NB: I alphebetized the list)
0 / 15 words found
0 books read
Adviser
Ancient
Bahrain
Bridge
Bustling
Calligraphy
Causeway
Chai
Chains
City
Colorful
Conqueror
Corner
Diverse
Empire
Fort
Glitters
Gold
Graves
Gulf
House
Islam
Manama
Manuscript
Middle East
Million
Miniature
Monarchy
Mound
Museum
Narrow
National
Nightlife
Pipes
Places
Pocketbook
Polished
Postmodern
Quran
Script
Siren
Souq(k)
Western
Worship
Manama Spell and SearchOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
2/12 Spell Option
Graves
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Sterling The Hound Heist Kit Sterling 10/2/25
Script
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Calee Killer Investment Calee Claiborne 10/3/25
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Manama Spell and SearchOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Words to Choose From:
Manama
Western
Middle East
Gulf
National
Museum
Monarchy
Causeway
Bridge
Nightlife
Postmodern
Ancient
Graves
Polished
Fort
Mound
Empire
Souq(k)
Narrow
Bustling
Corner
Pipes
Adviser
Chai
Gold
City
Glitters
Siren
Pocketbook
Chains
House
Quran
Script
Islam
Manuscript
Calligraphy
Miniature
Diverse
Places
Worship
Colorful
Conqueror
Million
Manama Spell and SearchOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
(Search) Words to Choose From:
Bahrain
Manama
Western
Middle East
Gulf
National
Museum
Monarchy
Causeway
Bridge
Nightlife
Postmodern
Ancient
Graves
Polished
Fort
Mound
Empire
Souq(k)
Narrow
Bustling
Corner
Pipes
Adviser
Chai
Gold
City
Glitters
Siren
Pocketbook
Chains
House
Quran
Script
Islam
Manuscript
Calligraphy
Miniature
Diverse
Places
Worship
Colorful
Conqueror
Million
October 1 -31Option Two: Word Search - Please Read Below Note
Completion 20/15
Book 1: The One | John Marrs | 10.02
🎃Western | "His description counted for almost half the men in the Western world." p. 35
🎃National | "...., into allowing you access to records from the National DNA database." p. 308
🎃Bridge | "But, they would cross that bridge when they came to it." p. 265
🎃Polished | ...., everything looked surprisingly clean and polished." p. 66
🎃Empire | "In my spare time I question how the Galactic Empire..." p. 172
🎃Narrow | "...which makes it hard to narrow down where he might strike next." p. 104
🎃Bustling | "She walked confidently through the bustling dining room, ..." p. 403
🎃Corner | "..., then looked at the clock in the corner..." p. 3
🎃Gold | "She kept Tim's ring on a gold chain around her neck." p. 251
🎃City | "....she worked for a large company in the city." p. 93
🎃House | :,,,and once their house was sold,..." p. 22
🎃Diverse | "...taking in the city's diverse skyline." p. 302
🎃Places | ...and he had been to places she'd only ever seen on TV or in films." p. 2
🎃Worship | "It was unlike any other house of worship Jade had ever visited." p. 225
🎃Colorful | "A horsepipe lay next to a row of colorful flowers." p. 66
🎃Million | "Your DNA is going to break up around three million marriages." p. 13
Book 2 | Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season | Norman Partridge | 10.02
🎃Graves | "I pointed two graves over." Loc 252
🎃Fort | "This is a public library, not Fort Knox..." Loc 375
🎃Mound | "...just as the machine skirted the mound." Loc 882
🎃Siren | "The sound of a siren rose in the distance." Loc 1106
Pocketbook
Chains
Quran
Script
Islam
Manuscript
Calligraphy
Miniature
Conqueror
Bahrain
Manama
Middle East
Gulf
Museum
Monarchy
Causeway
Nightlife
Postmodern
Ancient
Souq(k)
Pipes
Adviser
Chai
Glitters
Welcome everyone! You should all be linked up!
sign me up pleaseManama Spell and Search
October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
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Manama SearchOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Option Two: Word Search - Please Read Below Note
Find FIFTEEN of the above words. NOTE: If the word above is plural, you must find the plural version in the text. They can only be found within the text of the book - no covers, titles or authors, please. For each word you find, please provide the book title, page or location, and the sentence or phrase containing the word. Good Luck!
11/15
Words to Choose From:
Manama
Western
Middle East
Gulf
✔ National-P.374-100 Cities, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do-"...home to the Scottish National Gallery..." 10/3/25
✔ Museum-p.95-Broken-"I almost went to a museum." 10/1/25
Monarchy
Causeway
✔ Bridge-p.772-Dombey and Son-"...of bridges, crosses, churches, postyards, new horses being put in..." 10/3/25
Nightlife
Postmodern
✔ Ancient-p.181-The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know-"His masterpiece, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is an enduring myth..." 10/1/25
Graves
✔ Polished-p.180-The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know-"They rejected the polished phrases of the eighteenth-century poets..." 10/1/25
Fort
Mound
Empire
Souq(k)
Narrow
Bustling
✔ Corner-p.750-The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know="...look at the dark corners of the room..." 10/1/25
✔ Pipes-p.788-Dombey and Son-"...he smoked four pipes successively..." 10/3/25
Adviser
Chai
✔ Gold-p.291-Ben Franklin's Almanac of Wit, Wisdom, and Practical Advice: Useful Tips and Fascinating Facts for Every Day of the Year-"...Stone that turns lead into gold..." 10/1/25
✔ City-p.375-100 Cities, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do-"...before returning to the city center." 10/3/25
Glitters
Siren
Pocketbook
Chains
✔ House-p.740-Dombey and Son-"...she has taken what has happened in our House so much to heart..." 10/1/25
Quran
Script
Islam
Manuscript
Calligraphy
✔ Miniature-p.130-Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages-"...Cameron's Titanic in miniature..." 10/2/25
Diverse
Places
Worship
Colorful
Conqueror
✔ Million-p.757-Dombey and Son-"A million pardons! No!" 10/2/25
Manama Spell and SearchOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
SPELL OUT:
WORD SEARCH: 24/15
Decision at Delphi by Helen MacInnes 10/4
Western "to visit the ruins of ancient Greece and its western empire..." location 18
Gulf "All the sympathy in the world doesn't quite bridge that gulf." location 389
National "men who would use revolution for their own cynical extension of national power." location 1406
Museum "This whole place was one vast stretch of museum pieces and unexpected doorways." location 201
Ancient "to visit the ruins of ancient Greece and its western empire..." location 18
Empire "to visit the ruins of ancient Greece and its western empire..." location 18
Conqueror "Alexander, the conqueror of Greece, the invader from the North..." location 1058
Chains "A man who even kept memories was a man forging his own chains." location 1445
Bustling "The bustling tugs hauled and pushed and prodded the towering ship..." location 1866
Script "and a small note in hotel script telling him..." location 415
Miniature "by a small church with its cluster of miniature domes." location 1508
Million "destroy other human beings by the million..." location 819
Bridge "Near Thalos there is a bridge, a path that lead past my house..." location 1235
House "Near Thalos there is a bridge, a path that lead past my house..." location 1235
City "The bare, yellow hills behind the city were blotted out." location 402
Causeway "the high spring tide sending its surging waves across a causeway that led to the little island..." location 149
Graves "so despairing and lost and hopeless, tight into their own graves?" location 1725
Polished "But Elias was standing in front of a tobacconist's highly polished window." location 1009
Mound "Mounds of lime were all that greeted them." location 814
Narrow "through the darkness toward the narrow gap between Europe and Africa." location 105
Corner "just around the corner from here?" location 319
Gold "turned the high windows of the tall buildings into flaming gold." location 62
Siren "The siren gave a last and triumphant blast..." location 57
Places "Places where we can have Greek music and ouzo." location 658
Manama Spell October 2025
Islam
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John Marrs (other topics)
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Kit Sterling (other topics)
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October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Choose one of the options or do both!
Option One: Choose one or more of the below words to spell out this month. You can use any of the following to complete a letter:
1. First letter of the Book's title
2. First letter of the Author's first or last name
3. First letter of a Main Character's first or last name
Challenge Rules: All forms of books are accepted as long as they are 100 pages or more. When posting updates of completed books, please include a link to the title and author’s name, along with the date you finished reading the book. When you have finished the challenge, please copy and paste your entire challenge and re-post in a new message, letting us know it is completed.
Words to Choose From:
Bahrain
Manama
Western
Middle East
Gulf
National
Museum
Monarchy
Causeway
Bridge
Nightlife
Postmodern
Ancient
Graves
Polished
Fort
Mound
Empire
Souq(k)
Narrow
Bustling
Corner
Pipes
Adviser
Chai
Gold
City
Glitters
Siren
Pocketbook
Chains
House
Quran
Script
Islam
Manuscript
Calligraphy
Miniature
Diverse
Places
Worship
Colorful
Conqueror
Million
Option Two: Word Search - Please Read Below Note
Find FIFTEEN of the above words. NOTE: If the word above is plural, you must find the plural version in the text. They can only be found within the text of the book - no covers, titles or authors, please. For each word you find, please provide the book title, page or location, and the sentence or phrase containing the word. Good Luck!