2025 Reading Challenge discussion

How to play: Write a sentence or two with the THREE words the person above gives you. Then leave three words for the next person to use. (Keep it PG-rated please lol)

control
empty
zone

The demilitarized zone, more commonly known as no-man's-land, was empty; nobody was in control of it.

racket
jump
run

There was a polka-dotted critter that made a racket outside my window and I just had to run and get my camera out of the closet.

doll
ring
cuckoo

When you pulled the ring, hanging on the cord from the doll's back, it gave a very unexpected "cuckoo" noise.

Green
Banana
Type

When I bought a banana from the grocery store, I discovered that it was quite green so I stormed to my computer to type a complaint to the company and finished it with a mighty roar and slammed the PRINT key with great gusto.

Issue
Rabbit
Clock

My issue with Alice And Wonderland was that she was following the white rabbit with the clock and why he was late wasn’t even that important!

Dress

Beach

Candy

Candice Burnett, whose friends called her "Candy," made it a point to always dress for success because Squatsville, South Carolina, was a small town and you never know who you might run into, whether you were at the shopping mall or the beach.

Division

Commitment

Rhino

The wildlife protection 'division' should plan more 'commitment' to ensuring that the one horned Indian 'rhino' does not fall under the 'endangered' animal group.

Water

Love

Black

He consumed her love like he was diving into tropical water, until he left her world feeling empty and black.

Candle

Memory

Lake

He is blowing the Candle into the lake to forget his memory. (Am I right?)

Hair

Girl

Wind

I remember, when I was a young girl, riding with the windows down and my hair blowing in the wind.

Potato

Wild

Football

Wild with frustration when he couldn't find the football, Pablo started kicking a potato that had fallen off the produce truck earlier. It wasn't until he got home that guilt over wasting precious food hit him.

justice

candor

anger

I can state with complete candor that the current "justice" system is a great source of anger, not only to me, but to many other opponents of systemic racism.

backtrack

simple

frequent

I'm going to backtrack on what I said before: people frequent(ly) try to find a complex solution when a simple one can work even better.

Understanding

Peace

Support

It is my understanding that peace cannot be attained or maintained without the support of people on all sides of the situation.

Purple

Pheasant

Play

My daughter and I spent the afternoon watching a play in which a pheasant was resured by a girl wearing a purple wig.

emphatic
erroneous
illusion

He was under the illusion that he was right and was very emphatic in his arguments to the class, but it didn't take long for me to prove that his premise was erroneous.

thespian

theatre

thrombosis

The lead actress, a famous thespian known both for her fabulous acting skills and her terrible attitude, failed to appear at the theatre on opening night due to a deep vein thrombosis. Her understudy and other cast members, while genuinely concerned for the diva's health, were secretly delighted for the reprieve.

patrol
shiver
financial

Claire sighed as she began her evening patrol; the frigid air made her shiver, and once again she cursed the inept financial officer in the Horseshoe Bay police department who failed to sign off on her request to have her vehicle's heater fixed.

A shiver ran down Marie's back as the patrol passed the house she was hiding in. She wished it was just financial struggles she was having, but the problems she was dealing with now were much bigger.

Three new words:
Hand cream
Birthday card
Horseback riding

As Janie was applying hand cream, she told herself, "I still need to stop by and pick up a birthday card for Mom." She had good reason to cancel her plans of horseback riding today. She would stop somewhere, choose a card, and go see her parents. She had big news to share. What better day than on her mother's birthday?

quash
standard
tusk

It was standard procedure to speak to the citizens every day while he was holding the ceremonial tusk to quash any rumours that the power of the mage was failing.

Pizza
Spreadsheet
Hammer

Sunday was just not working well for Cassandra. The pizza was lousy and she was so frustrated with how her spreadsheet was turning out that she actually picked up a hammer to smash her screen. But of course she didn't actually smash it. It was time to find a job where she'd never have to work on Sundays again.

trumpet

triumphant

trustworthy


(this time I remembered to add 3 words--I see I messed up in Sept!)