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19. Family Gathering
4. Insta LoveInsta-love is a romance trope that often is not favored by readers because they fall in love so quickly, it can be unbelievable at times.
Whereas, some readers enjoy this trope because it’s innocent, pure, and genuine. At times, this trope is also known as “love at first sight”.
Book Recommendations:
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Task: 1. Read a book from your TBR with a title or series name that begins with a letter in SEPTEMBER.
Book/Author: The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold by Ally Carter
Date added to TBR: 8/18/25
Date Read: 9/5/25
How it Fits: Title starts with T.
* 6th book posted.
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Task: 1. Read a book from your TBR with a title or series name that begins with a letter in SEPTEMBER.
Book/Author: Steel King by Devney Perry
Date added to TBR: 6/18/25
Date Read: 9/6/25
How it Fits: Title starts with S.
* 7th book posted.
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Task: 1. Read a book from your TBR with a title or series name that begins with a letter in SEPTEMBER.
Book/Author: The Heir by Darcie Wilde
Date added to TBR: 8/11/25
Date Read: 9/8/25
How it Fits: Title starts with T.
* 8th book posted.
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Task: 2. Read a book from your TBR with a 9 in the page count or publication date.
Book/Author: Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd
Date added to TBR: 1/19/17
Date Read: 9/10/25
How it Fits: published 9/1/14
* 9th book posted.
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Task: 1. Read a book from your TBR with a title or series name that begins with a letter in SEPTEMBER.
Book/Author: She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena
Date added to TBR: 7/2/25
Date Read: 9/11/25
How it Fits: Title starts with S.
* 10th book posted.
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1. Ocean's Eleven
Task: 3. Read a book with an ensemble cast of characters.
Book/Author: She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena
Date Read: 9/11/25
How it Fits: Large cast of characters including Bryden’s family, friends and neighbors.
Yes. That’s perfect. First letter of every word is in Lady Whistledown.
Perfect!The Way We Met button
Sophia’s Wedding
Sophia's Wedding, Part 1 is the sixth episode of the fourth season of The Golden Girls and the eighty-second episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Robert Bruce and Martin Weiss, it premiered on November 19th, 1988. It is the first part of the two-part Sophia's Wedding special.
Sophia’s Wedding Part 2 is the seventh episode of the fourth season of The Golden Girls and the eighty-third episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan, it premiered on NBC-TV on November 26th, 1988. It is the second part of the two-part Sophia's Wedding special.
Part 1-When Sophia's friend Esther Weinstock dies, she goes to her funeral in Brooklyn. There, she confronts Esther's widower, Max played by Jack Gilford, whom Sophia blames for the failure of her husband's old business.
The highlight of this episode are the wedding guest. Rose gets the lists of wedding guest mixed up with the list of Elvis Impersonators she was looking to hire for her Elvis fan club meeting. The wedding guests turn out to be all Elvis impersonators who all sing Hawaiian Wedding Song at the end of the ceremony. That scene was too good not to share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXSQ...
Part2-A stressed-out Dorothy starts smoking cigarettes again, fifteen years after quitting. Sophia and Max return from their honeymoon, and they try to resurrect Max and Salvadore's old pizza-and-knish stand at the beach which unfortunately burns down due to an electrical fault. Sophia and Max decide it is best for them not to live together and they go their seperate ways
Fun Facts:
Quentin Tarantino appears as an Elvis impersonator, he's in the second row wearing a cream colored jacket and black shirt. He later said the residuals he earned from doing the episode helped fund his movie Reservoir Dogs. Quentin Tarantino says he played the "real" Elvis, and all the others were "Fake Elvis'" or the "Sellout Elvis".
Estelle Getty and Jack Gilford shared a birthday: July 25th, Gilford was born in 1908 and Getty was born in 1923.
The exterior shot used for Max Weinstock's house in Brooklyn is the same house used for the Manero's in Saturday Night Fever.
Please complete ONE of the following tasks:
1. Read a book with a Romance MPG
2. Read a book where the MC gets married (Please state Page/Location number of the ceremony)
3. Read a book that mentions any famous person (Must be a real life famous person living or dead. Not a fictional famous person created for the book. Please give the name of the famous person)
Excellent! You have earned the Harold Gould as Miles button!
Richard Mulligan as Harry Weston
Richard Mulligan (November 13, 1932 – September 26, 2000) was an American character actor. He was known for his roles in the sitcoms Soap (1977–1981) and Empty Nest (1988–1995). Mulligan won two Emmy Awards (1980 and 1989) and one Golden Globe Award (1989). Mulligan was the younger brother of film director Robert Mulligan.
Dr. Harry Weston, M.D. is a central character in the 1988-1995 NBC sitcom Empty Nest and a minor character in its sister series The Golden Girls and Nurses. A good-hearted and slightly bumbling pediatrician from the Miami suburbs, Harry's life is turned upside-down when two of his three daughters move back home as he copes with the loss of his wife.
Harry appeared in all seven Empty Nest seasons and four episodes of its spin-off, Nurses. He also played a small role in Empty Nest's parent series, The Golden Girls, appearing in three episodes.
Please complete ONE of the following tasks:
1. Read a book that has the words “Empty” and “Nest” in the text (the words do not have to be together but both have to be in the book. (Please state page/location numbers and short passage for BOTH words)
2. Read a book with a character that is a doctor
3. Read a book that was published between the years 1988-1995. (First published or edition you read)
Impressive! You have earned the McLean Stevenson button
Rosalind Cash
(December 31, 1938-October 31, 1995) appeared on The Golden Girls as Lorraine Wagner-Zbornak, Dorothy's new daughter in-law in the Season 3 episode titled "Mixed Blessings". Rosiland was an actress whose career endured and flourished on stage, screen, and television, despite her staunch refusal to portray stereotyped black roles. Ms. Cash was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the PBS production of Go Tell it on the Mountain.
Rosalind performed the voices for Roosevelt Franklin's Mother and his sister Mary Frances Franklin on the 1971 album The Year of Roosevelt Franklin. She also appeared as Lisa in the sci-fi/thriller The Ωmega Man.
Cash's other credits include the ABC-TV soap opera General Hospital, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, thirtysomething, Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Cosby Show.
Mixed Blessings is the twenty-third episode of the third season of The Golden Girls and the seventy-fourth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Christopher Lloyd, the episode premiered on NBC-TV on March 19th, 1988.
Sophia leaves for a one day trip, Blanche and Rose are preparing for a cruise by getting fitter and have beauty treatments. Dorothy's son Michael arrives, he reveals that he is engaged to Lorraine who is a singer with his band and they plan to invite the family on Sunday he will bring Lorraine tomorrow, however he tells Dorothy that Lorraine is black and while still in shock Dorothy is happy to accept her.
The next day Dorothy meets Lorraine, but mistakes her as Lorraine's Mother, after Blanche and Rose takes her around the house Dorothy confronts Michael about the age difference unable to accept this Michael refuses to listen as he is too much in love. That night Dorothy chats to Lorraine about the age gap, however Lorraine tells her that when she was younger she was married before and wasn't happy with the union at all and Dorothy can relate but she still can't approve.
That next day Michael is arguing with Dorothy as Lorraine's mother doesn't mind the age differences but Dorothy still sticks to his guns. However just then Lorraine's mother Greta and her two aunts have come to visit, they mistake Dorothy for the maid, however Lorraine introduces the group before she shows her mother Michael and Greta disapproves because he's white. Dorothy protects her son explaining her disapproves because of the age differences, Sophia returns and straight away gives her word as well however Blanche and Rose try to help only for the mothers warned their that if they marry they will regret it.
That evening the girls get a visit from Greta and the 2 aunts they feel that they need to sort out the problem civil over cheesecake and they seem to be doing well. But then Rose reveals Michael and Lorraine have eloped to a night chapel. The group gets there before the service, Lorraine gives them permission not to be a part of the wedding, but Lorraine reveals she is pregnant and so Dorothy and Greta decide to accept it. As the service starts Lorraine is given Greta's blue scarf, Blanche's Grandmother's Earrings, Dorothy lets her borrow her watch and the baby is the new. As everyone enters the chapel Dorothy and Greta begin fighting over names.
Please complete ONE of the following tasks:
1. Read a book that a MC who is a musician or is in a band
2. Read a book where a couple elopes because the family disapproves of the marriage (Please give details)
3. Read a book that has the number “7” or “4” in the page count
Amazing! You have earned the Lily Lindstrom button
Kirsten Adams
Kirsten Adams (née Nylund) is the eldest daughter of Rose Nylund and Charles "Charlie" Nylund, Sr. She has four siblings: Bridget Nylund, Gunilla Nylund, Adam Nylund and Charles "Charlie" Nylund, Jr. She was played by Christine Belford in season 1 and Lee Garlington in season 7.
She gets to keep the will when Rose passes away, stated in The Truth Will Out. Kirsten was shocked when she found out her father made very little money, as Rose always told her that he was successful and hardworking. She basically dissed her mother when Rose explains that she lost the money through greedy choices. But they made up at the end of the episode when Rose explains while Charlie was successful as a person she made up the money because she never wanted her children to be disappointed in him. She has one daughter, Charley Adams.
In the episode Home Again, Rose (Parts II), Rose had to get triple bypass surgery and the girls, being very concerned for Rose, called Kirsten. By the time she got to the hospital, she saw the girls singing a song. She took this the wrong way, thinking the girls did not care for her mother. Until the end of the episode, Kirsten would not let the girls see Rose after her surgery because they were not Rose's family. After surgery, Kirsten learns that Rose may need rehabilitation or therapy that her insurance doesn't cover. Blanche tells Kirsten, "We'll simply see that she gets it--hell, that's why houses have mortgages!" Dorothy reveals the pact that the girls made to take care of each other. Touched by their caring and generosity, Kirsten goes to talk to the doctor to allow the girls to see Rose, saying, "My mother needs to be with her family now...all of her family."
This episode reveals that she has at least one other daughter, as she refers to "the girls" being too young to come to the hospital.
Fun Fact-When Rose was under anesthesia before her procedure, she asks Kirsten to come closer as if she were going to tell her some important secret. Instead Rose says “Live From New York Its Saturday Night!” Which Betty White was able to say for real on May 8, 2010 when she became the oldest person to ever host Saturday Night Live at the age of 88.
Please complete ONE of the following tasks:
1. Read a book that has the number “8” and “8” in the page count or publishing date (Must be 2 # 8’s)
2. Read a book where someone tells a lie but for a good reason (Your interpration but MUST give details
3. Read a book with a scene in the Hospital (Please describe the Scene)
Very Good! You have earned the Rebecca Devereaux button
David Blackmore
David Devereaux Blackmore the grandson of Blanche Devereaux, and the son of Blanche's daughter, Janet and her husband, Michael .
Janet and Michael decide to take a second honeymoon in Hawaii to work on their problems with their marriage, and they have David stay at Blanche's house because he has become too rebellious. When Blanche picks him up at the airport, he was nowhere to be found, only to be sent home by a policeman, saying he stowed away on a plane to the Bahamas while going to the bathroom. David refuses lunch and decides to eat at a restaurant instead.
At 2 AM, David wakes everyone up with loud music, and they find David in the living room with some new "friends" he made from a pizza joint. Dorothy throws David's "friends" out of the house, and tells David she's having a real problem with his attitude. David tells everyone they can just kiss his attitude, and Sophia slaps him across the face. Stunned, David runs outside. Blanche goes outside on the porch to talk to him. David tells her no one ever hit him before, and that his parents fight all the time, making him feel neglected. The next morning, he is given a long list of chores to do as punishment.
When David decides to sneak out of the house to have his own life, Dorothy catches him and talks to him. Dorothy asks David if he's just going to "wimp out." He denies "wimping out" and says he doesn't have to stay at his grandmother's house, especially with the crappy chores - he even says that vacuuming is for girls. Dorothy replies that life is full of crappy stuff to do. She then tells him that his grandmother loves him. David tells her life stinks, and Dorothy said that he had a choice, either to tough it out or let it beat him, but right now, he's at his grandmother's house and things don't have to stink. If he stays and works at it, and everything turns out okay, he'll have a place to go to when things at home really get to stink. David comes to trust Dorothy, and he walks back into the house while she fixes him something to eat.
The next evening, Blanche proposes a toast to Dorothy who got an A on her test. Dorothy then continues with another toast to David, saying that in the past week, he has proven that he is really a good kid. David then decides to stay for good, and Blanche calls Janet saying that she wants to keep him and raise him herself. Janet refuses and wants to take him home, and Blanche tells Janet that: "If she and her husband don't straighten up, she'll kick her uppity butt 'till Hell won't have it again!" After hanging up the phone, Blanche says she meant every word she said. David goes to Hawaii to join his parents to make a new start in their relationship.
Please complete ONE of the following tasks:
1. Read a book with teenage MC
2. Read a book with the word “REBELLIOUS” in the text (Please state page/location number and short passage)
3. Read a book with a Young Adult MPG
Ernie Says!
3. Sonia and Rosita make history
In 1971, Sesame Street cast Sonia Manzano in television’s first-ever Latina leading role, and she played the part until her 2015 retirement. And in 1983, the show introduced Rosita, its first Latina muppet, at another time when immigration from Mexico was a hot-button topic.
To watch this episode, please complete ONE of the tasks below:
a. Read a book that is set in Mexico or by a Mexican author.
b. Read the first book of any series on your TBR. (please add the date you added that book on your TBR)
c. Read a book with ONE number from 1971 on the page count .
Ah-ha-ha!
8. Julia
Julia was introduced to Sesame Street in 2015 as the first autistic character to join the ensemble. With bright-orange hair and big green eyes framed by luxurious lashes, she is fast friends with Elmo and Abby and loves her stuffed bunny Fluffster. Julia loves playing "I Spy," going on the computer, singing, dancing, and making art in a "Julia sort of way," as Abby Cadabby puts it.
To play with Julia, please complete ONE of the tasks below:
a. Read a book with a person with a disability in the story.
b. Read a book that was published in 2015. (edition you read)
c. Read a book with a double letter in the title.
Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here!
2. “Rubber Duckie, You’re The One”
Around the same time, Ernie debuted an anthem of his own: this celebration of his favorite bath toy. The song reached #16 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and was nominated for the 1971 Grammy for Best Recording for Children. (It lost to The Sesame Street Book & Record, an album on which it appeared.)
To watch this episode, please complete ONE of the tasks below:
a. Read a debut novel of any author.
b. Read a book with something made of rubber on the cover.
c. Read a book where the MC’s first initial CANNOT be found in the word GRAMMY.
Loving Educator!
8. Miles Robinson
Miles Robinson, adopted by Susan and Gordon on Sesame Street in 1985 (Episode 2122), became a familiar child on the show. His birthday is December 4th. Episode 2313 (1987) featured a dream sequence with an adult Miles played by Kevin Clash. As a teenager, Miles formed a band (Episode 4079) and graduated high school with Gabi (Episode 4112), despite their different debut years as babies. A flashback showed his shyness on his first kindergarten day. He worked as Alan's assistant at Hooper's Store in Season 37.
To meet Miles, please complete ONE of the tasks below:
a. Read a book published in December. (edition you read)
b. Read a book with a flashback scene. (location and brief passage)
c. Read a book with a child on the cover.
Sep 10, 2025 07:03AM
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Book/Author Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd
Date Read: 9/10/25
Task: Read for wild card - family drama in plot.
How it Fits: Elizabeth believing her father killed her mother, discovers he may not have murdered her mother.
