Chaitra’s Comments (group member since Apr 29, 2012)

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Thanks!

Congrats, Karen!

Thanks Barb! Congrats, all finishers!

May I have another set?

Round 46

✔ O - The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean ★★ (08/14/25)
✔ T - An Edible History of Humanity | Tom Standage ★★★ (08/05/25)
✔ F - Framed in Fire | Iona Whishaw ★★★ (08/18/25)
✔ N - No Good Tea Goes Unpunished | Bree Baker ★★★ (08/03/25)
✔ U - Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)
✔ R - Like Trees, Walking | Ravi Howard ★★★ (08/07/25)
✔ H - How to Find a Missing Girl | Victoria Wlosok ★ (07/29/25)
✔ Bonus: OF - Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang ★★★★ (08/14/25)

Finished.

Outer Banks

Duration: Jul 01, 2025 - Sep 30, 2025
Completed: 14/14

✔ 1. Outer Banks
🌊Read a book in which the main character is either protected from danger or protects someone else from danger (tell us how your book fits).
Bran New Death | Victoria Hamilton ★★★ (07/02/25)
Merry protects (view spoiler)[Melvin (hide spoiler)] and Beckett protects her from the killer.

✔ 2. Wild Horses of Corolla
🌊Read a book with horses used as a common mode of transportation (tell us how your book fits).
Sin Eater | Megan Campisi ★★ (07/08/25)
Set in Tudor England.

✔ 3. Virginia Dare
🌊Read a book marked Mystery in its main GR page.
A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)

✔ 4. Graveyard of the Atlantic
🌊Read a book with a graveyard or tombstone on the cover (post the cover).
Death at a Scottish Wedding | Lucy Connelly ★★★ (08/18/25)


✔ 5. Blackbeard
🌊Read a book whose title or author's name contains one of the following words: Queen, Anne or Revenge (for queen and revenge: plurals okay, no other variations; for Anne, Ann or Anna are fine, no other variations).
Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie ★★★ (07/18/25)

✔ 6. U.S. Lifesaving Service
🌊Read a book in which a speaking character goes on a search and rescue mission (tell us who and who or what they're rescuing).
Locklands | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★ (07/17/25)
Berenice, Sancia, Clef, Claudia and Diella go on a search for Crasedes Magnus who is imprisoned in an unknown location.

✔ 7. Richard Etheridge
🌊Read a book in which the main character is a veteran (any branch any country any period, just not active duty during the time the book is set; tell us where and when they served).
Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
Robert Kurland served in the British military during Waterloo.

✔ 8. Radio Communications
🌊Read a book set in a location that begins with a letter in BUXTON (tell us the location).
Shorefall | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★ (07/12/25)
Tevonne.

✔ 9. U.S. Weather Bureau Station Hatteras
🌊Read a book in which a major adverse weather event occurs (tell us what).
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding | Catherine Mack ★ (07/04/25)
Hurricane.

✔ 10. Orville and Wilbur Wright
🌊Read a book with siblings as main characters.
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★ (07/14/25)
Olanna & Kainene.

✔ 11. Cape Hatteras National Seashore
🌊Read a book that is set in a location by the beach (tell us the location and the sea/ocean it borders).
Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)
San Francisco, Pacific Ocean.

✔ 12. Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
🌊Read a book in which the main character encounters an uncaged wild animal (tell us what they see).
Heir to the Empire | Timothy Zahn ★★★ (07/04/25)
Luke encounters a vornskr, a wild canine like beast on the planet Myrkr.

✔ 13. Sea Turtles
🌊Read a book whose cover shows something cute and adorable (your interpretation; post the cover).
Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)


✔ 14. Shows and Books
🌊Read a book set in the Outer Banks.
Live and Let Chai | Bree Baker ★★★★ (07/27/25)

*** Completed (08/18/25) ***

Finished.

Summer 2025 Spell

Duration: Jun 21, 2025 - Sep 20, 2025
Completed: 30/30

A Perfection of Thought
(20)

✔ A - Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)

✔ P - Enemy Women | Paulette Jiles ★★ (06/21/25)
✔ E - The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★★★ (06/27/25)
✔ R - Music for Wartime | Rebecca Makkai ★★★ (06/23/25)
✔ F - The Fifth Petal | Brunonia Barry ★ (06/23/25)
✔ E - Endling | Maria Reva ★★★★★ (06/29/25)
✔ C - Death at the White Hart | Chris Chibnall ★★★ (06/29/25)
✔ T - Things in Nature Merely Grow | Yiyun Li ★★★ (06/21/25)
✔ I - Run on Red | Noelle W. Ihli ★★ (06/30/25)
✔ O - Of Love and Shadows | Isabel Allende ★ (06/23/25)
✔ N - A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)

✔ O - Brownsville: Stories | Oscar Cásares ★★★★ (06/24/25)
✔ F - Redemption Point | Candice Fox ★★★ (06/25/25)

✔ T - Heir to the Empire | Timothy Zahn ★★★ (07/04/25)
✔ H - How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir | Molly Jong-Fast ★★★ (06/30/25)
✔ O - Killing State | Judith O'Reilly ★★ (07/20/25)
✔ U - Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)
✔ G - Booked for Death | Victoria Gilbert ★★★ (07/27/25)
✔ H - Bran New Death | Victoria Hamilton ★★★ (07/02/25)
✔ T - The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans | Laura Trethewey ★★★★ (07/11/25)

It was a Song
(10)

✔ I - The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks ★★ (07/09/25)
✔ T - The Burning Issue of the Day | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/22/25)

✔ W - Run for the Hills | Kevin Wilson ★★★★ (06/30/25)
✔ A - Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★ (07/14/25)
✔ S - Beyond A Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★★ (06/28/25)

✔ A - Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie ★★★ (07/18/25)

✔ S - Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)
✔ O - The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean ★★ (08/14/25)
✔ N - No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding | Catherine Mack ★ (07/04/25)
✔ G - Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (07/31/25)

*** Completed (08/17/25) ***

Finished.

August 2025 Spell Challenge

Duration: Aug 01, 2025 - Aug 31, 2025
Completed: 11/11

✔ S - Spook Street | Mick Herron ★★★★★ (08/03/25)
✔ E - Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View | ed. Elizabeth Schaefer ★★★★ (08/01/25)
✔ N - No Good Tea Goes Unpunished | Bree Baker ★★★ (08/03/25)
✔ T - An Edible History of Humanity | Tom Standage ★★★ (08/05/25)
✔ I - I'll Be Right Here | Amy Bloom ★★ (08/03/25)
✔ M - Joe Country | Mick Herron ★★★★ (08/04/25)
✔ E - The Drowned Woods | Emily Lloyd-Jones ★★★ (08/05/25)
✔ N - Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)
✔ T - Murder on Pleasant Avenue | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (08/06/25)
✔ A - All That Consumes Us | Erica Waters ★★ (08/06/25)
✔ L - London Rules | Mick Herron ★★★★ (08/04/25)

*** Completed (08/17/25) ***

I'm done also.

Countries of the World #13: Angola

Duration: Aug 01, 2025 - Aug 31, 2025
Completed: 10/6+

✔ Country: Angola
🚩Read a book whose title starts with a letter in ANGOLA (ignore A, An and The or equivalent if not English).
London Rules | Mick Herron ★★★★ (08/04/25)

Stats

✔ Capital: Luanda
🚩Read a book whose author's first and last initials are in the word LUANDA (letters can only be used as many times as they appear in the word).
Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)

✔ Population: 37,290,193 (2023 estimate)
🚩Read a book whose total number of pages contain at least 2 of the numbers in the population (tell us the page count).
I'll Be Right Here | Amy Bloom ★★ (08/03/25)
272 pages.

✔ Area: 481,400 sq mi
🚩Read a book whose year it was first published has at least 2 of the numbers in the area (tell us the year published).
An Edible History of Humanity | Tom Standage ★★★ (08/05/25)
Pub. 2010

Trivia

✔ 1. Ilha dos Tigres
🚩Read a book either first published or set during the 1970s (tell us which year your book is set or published).
Silver On The Tree | Susan Cooper ★★★ (08/11/25)
Pub. 1977

✔ 2. The Mwila
🚩Read a book whose cover shows a woman’s hair prominently (post the cover).
The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy | Heather Blake ★★★ (08/01/25)


✔ 3. The Iron Palace
🚩Read a book whose main character works at a museum or a restaurant (tell us where).
No Good Tea Goes Unpunished | Bree Baker ★★★ (08/03/25)
MC Everly owns a tea shop/restaurant.

✔ 4. Cemiterio de Navios
🚩Read a book that has been lying around on your TBR from the year you’ve joined Goodreads (tell us when you added the book).
Like Trees, Walking | Ravi Howard ★★★ (08/07/25)
Added Jun 29, 2012.

✔ 5. Imbondeiro
🚩Read a book with a major word in the title beginning and ending with the same letter (like Baobab).
Spook Street | Mick Herron ★★★★★ (08/03/25)

✔ 6. Miradouro da Lua
🚩Read a book whose cover shows the moon prominently (post the cover).
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View | Elizabeth Schaefer ★★★★ (08/01/25)


*** Completed (08/17/25) ***

Congrats, Carolyn! I still have a bunch of Es to go before I finish this one.

Congrats, Tari!

Congrats, Robin and Vickie!

Congrats, Meg!

Thanks Barb!

Christina (AKA Babbling) wrote: "Guess #13

S3 - A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean 13 August 2025 ★★★ (audiobook) Mass Market Paperback, 386 pages

[bookcover:A Rogue by Any Other Name|136..."

S3 is a miss.

Andrea wrote: "Christmas Cover-Up by Lynette Eason 8/3/25
224 pages
C4"

C4 is a miss.

Congrats, Meg!

Congrats, Tari!

Michelle wrote: "GUESS #9

SUSPECT - moVie Star (SV) - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt - 7/3/25
CAUSE OF DEATH - Stabbing - Athame on the cover - [book:Diamonds and ..."

The murderer was not the movie star.

Congrats, Robin, Patrizia and Lynn!

Congrats, Robin!