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Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Congrats, all finishers!

Thanks Jennifer!

Level 2 officially but I usually try for Level 3.

2025 Hoard No More

Duration: Aug 01, 2025 - Jul 31, 2026
Completed: 0/48+


AUGUST - For each book in your challenge, read enough short (less than 150 pages) or half-step books to equal 150+ pages
If your challenge is to read 2 books per month, you would read *two sets of half-step/short books with each set equaling 150+ pages.

SEPTEMBER - A book with a 9 in the page count; tell us how many pages

OCTOBER - A book whose title is printed in blue; post the cover

NOVEMBER - A book by an author with double consonants in their name (Pe*gg*y, Strau*ss*); post a link to the author's GR page

DECEMBER - A book with an indoor scene shown prominently on the cover; post the cover

JANUARY - A book by an author whose first name begins with J; post a link to the author's GR page

FEBRUARY - A book originally published in February of any year; tell us the publication date

MARCH - A book you added to your to-read shelf/list in March of any year; tell us when you added it

APRIL - A book with a cover that is predominantly blue; post the cover

MAY - A book whose title begins with M; disregard A, An and The

JUNE - A book with only even numbers in the page count (mathematically speaking, 0 is an even number); tell us how many pages

JULY - A book from series with at least 8 published books; tell us how many books and the series name

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I'm finished with my round! Jimena, would you please choose a new set for me?

Round 45

✔ J - So Far Gone | Jess Walter ★★★ (07/06/25)
✔ Y - The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji ★★★ (07/24/25)
✔ E - Murder in an English Glade | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
✔ D - Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
✔ K - Killing State | Judith O'Reilly ★★ (07/20/25)
✔ I - The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks ★★ (07/09/25)
✔ L - The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans | Laura Trethewey ★★★★ (07/11/25)

Finished.

Hoard No More 2024

Duration: Aug 01, 2024 - Jul 31, 2025
Completed: 72/48+

🗄️August: Books published in years ending in zero/Zero in page count.
- 490 pages. The God of the Woods | Liz Moore ★★★★ (08/01/24)
- 320 pages. Six Feet Deep Dish | Mindy Quigley ★★★★ (08/02/24)
- Pub. 2020. Fishing for Trouble | Elizabeth Logan ★★★ (08/03/24)
- Pub. 2020. All My Mother's Lovers | Ilana Masad ★★ (08/04/24)
- 302 pages. All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy ★★★ (08/05/24)
- Pub. 2020. All We Buried | Elena Taylor ★★★ (08/06/24)

🗄️September: Books set in autumn (as experienced in whichever hemisphere the book is set in).
- September. Read on Arrival | Nora Page ★★★ (09/02/24)
- September. Dark Matter | Blake Crouch ★ (09/03/24)
- September. Now You See It | Carol J. Perry ★ (09/03/24)
- October. Mrs. Morris and the Ghost | Traci Wilton ★ (09/25/24)
- October. Egg Drop Dead | Laura Childs ★★ (09/30/24)
- September. Murder Under a Red Moon | Harini Nagendra ★★★ (11/06/24)

🗄️October: Books whose author's first or last name begins with a vowel (post a link to the author's name).
- Under the Surface | Diana Urban ★★ (10/01/24)
- We Solve Murders | Richard Osman ★★ (10/02/24)
- The Tale of Hill Top Farm | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (10/03/24)
- The Castle of Llyr | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (10/04/24)
- Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge | Ovidia Yu ★★★ (10/11/24)
- Murder Cuts the Mustard | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (10/12/24)

🗄️November: Books with an outdoor scene on the cover and no visible people.
- The Last Word | Taylor Adams ★★ (11/07/24)
- Eggs on Ice | Laura Childs ★★ (11/17/24)
- Mint Chocolate Murder | Meri Allen ★★★★ (12/01/24)
- Aunt Bessie Enjoys | Diana Xarissa ★★★ (01/03/25)
- The Drawing of the Three | Stephen King ★★★★ (01/11/25)
- The Shadow of Death | Jane Willan ★★★ (01/14/25)



🗄️December - Books whose theme is "family," your interpretation, tell us how your books fit.
- About her interactions with her family. I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir | Youngmi Mayer ★★★★★ (12/02/24)
- Tempest’s family secrets are a large part of the book. The Raven Thief | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (01/01/25)
- Sisters are MCs. Murder on a Girls' Night Out | Anne George ★★★ (01/03/25)
- Liz’s family form a large part of the plot. Lowcountry Boughs of Holly | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (01/04/25)
- Peter’s dysfunction with his family. Mothers and Sons | Adam Haslett ★★★ (01/09/25)
- Agamemnon & the House of Atreus, the original dysfunctional family. The Voyage Home | Pat Barker ★★ (01/22/25)

🗄️January - Books whose covers are substantially white and/or blue (more than 50 percent of either or in combination) -- post the cover.
- One of the Girls | Lucy Clarke ★★ (01/03/25)
- The Owl Killers | Karen Maitland ★★★ (01/06/25)
- The Lost Heir | Tui T. Sutherland ★★★ (01/07/25)
- You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist | Kari Ferrell ★★★ (01/10/25)
- London Rain | Nicola Upson ★★ (01/10/25)
- Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust | Mindy Quigley ★★★★ (01/11/25)



🗄️February - The shortest month, so the shortest books -- books that have fewer than 250 pages (post the page count). For this one task, the 150-page minimum rule is waived. Time to get out those half-step books and knock them out!
- 160 pages. Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear | Seanan McGuire ★★★ (02/01/25)
- 240 pages. The Question of Bruno | Aleksandar Hemon ★★ (02/05/25)
- 238 pages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | Loung Ung ★★★ (02/07/25)
- 246 pages. Gunpowder Plot | Carola Dunn ★★★ (02/18/25)
- 193 pages. Along the Saltwise Sea | A. Deborah Baker ★★ (02/26/25)
- 247 pages. The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern | Lilian Jackson Braun ★★★★ (02/27/25)

🗄️March - Books that have an animal on the cover (post the cover).
- Summer of a Thousand Pies | Margaret Dilloway ★★★ (03/03/25)
- Murder on Trinity Place | Victoria Thompson ★★ (03/06/25)
- A Troubling Tail | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (03/08/25)
- Sleight of Paw | Sofie Kelly ★★ (03/09/25)
- Babylonia | Costanza Casati ★★ (03/09/25)
- The Wagtail Murder Club | Krista Davis ★ (03/11/25)



🗄️April - Books whose authors write more than one series, or who write both series *and* stand-alones.
- Skink, Andrew Yancy, Standalones. Tourist Season | Carl Hiaasen ★★ (04/01/25)
- Slough House, Oxford Investigations, Standalones. Real Tigers | Mick Herron ★★★★ (04/02/25)
- Fairy Tale Fatal, Discreet Retrieval Agency. Come Hell or Highball | Maia Chance ★ (04/03/25)
- Fred the Vampire Accountant, Villains’ Code, etc. Deadly Assessments | Drew Hayes ★★★★★ (04/05/25)
- Carol Childs, Kat Lawson, etc. Shadow Of Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★ (04/06/25)
- Oregon Honeycomb, Candy-Coated. Death Bee Comes Her | Nancy CoCo ★ (04/08/25)

🗄️May - Books first published in the 1980s or the 1990s.
- May 15, 1994. K is for Killer | Sue Grafton ★★ (05/21/25)
- 1998. Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death | M.C. Beaton ★★ (05/26/25)
- Oct 01, 1982. Fellowship of Fear | Aaron Elkins ★ (05/27/25)
- 1999. The Fifth Elephant | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (05/28/25)
- Aug 05, 1989. The Silver Pigs | Lindsey Davis ★★ (05/30/25)
- Apr 23, 1987. Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks ★★★★ (06/01/25)

🗄️June - Books with a romantic element in them (don't have to be actual romances, though) - tell us how your book fits, using spoiler tags if necessary.
- Frances & Ford & (view spoiler)[Frances & Archie (hide spoiler)]. How to Seal Your Own Fate | Kristen Perrin ★★★ (06/02/25)
- Ginger & Basil. Murder at Brighton Beach | Lee Strauss ★★★ (06/02/25)
- Revan & Bastila. Revan | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/03/25)
- Yukiyo & Ryu. Under the Midnight Sun | Keigo Higashino ★★★★ (06/05/25)
- Queen Margot & La Mole. Queen Margot | Alexandre Dumas ★★ (06/06/25)
- Susannah & Eddie. The Dark Tower | Stephen King ★★★★★ (06/10/25)

🗄️July - Books with warm, sunny or summery weather portrayed on the cover. Post the cover, and then go back inside to the air-conditioning where you belong.
- A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)
- Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
- Murder in an English Glade | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
- The Burning Issue of the Day | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/22/25)
- The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey ★★ (07/22/25)
- Death in the Garden | Isabella Bassett ★★★ (07/23/25)



*** Completed (07/23/25) ***

Welcome to the challenge, OM, L&M, Patrizia and Angel!

Patrizia wrote: "Expired medicines that I didn't use and didn't throw because for one thing what if I felt sick enough to need them one day and another, because I didn't know how to safely get rid of them. (Turns o..."

Thanks for the info Patrizia! The places near me were pharmacies, but all pharmacies don't take expired meds. I expect ultimately this is what they do also - hand it over to a proper disposal facility. I was just lazy to look it up prior to this cleaning session, but once I did it was a simple thing.

Welcome to the challenge, Meg, OM, L&M, Patrizia and Angel!

Congrats, Connie!

Meg wrote: "Landscaper ==> Laurie Cass - Booking the Crook 07/13

Fall (from balcony) ==> [book:A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and M..."

The murder was not at the Three Broomsticks

Congrats, Meg!

Welcome to the challenge, OM, Michelle and Tari!

Congrats, Ed!

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Next guess: T-6
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Pages: 160
Read: 5/31/25"

T6 is a miss.

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Here's one for Barb:

Round 9, Picking for Meg

Meg I've read books from your shelf but I didn't like any enough to recommend so this is a random selection of titles that caught my eye for one reason or another. Hope you like whichever ones you end up reading!

Welcome Meg!

Welcome to the challenge, Frankie!