The Lost Challenges discussion

Bohemian Rhapsody
Duration: October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022

Level:
Fantasy: 16-30 tasks

20/20 Completed. Finished


~The Lyrics~
Is this the real life?
📍 1. Read a nonfiction book.
01.You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories-Gabrielle Union 11/30/21
Is this just fantasy?
📍 2. Read a book tagged fantasy.
02.Dark Lover-J.R. Ward 4/19/22
Caught in a landslide
📍 3. Read a book where a landslide actually occurs.
No escape from reality
📍 4. Read a book where a character wants to escape. Tell us from where.
Open your eyes
📍 5. Read a book with a 12 intact in the publication date.
(11/12/2019)
03.White Lies-Autumn Jones Lake 10/04/21


Look up to the skies and see
📍 6. Read a book with the sky on the cover (show cover).
04.A Merciful Fate-Kendra Elliot 12/03/21
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
📍 7. Read a book with a young male character.
Because I'm easy come, easy go
📍 8. Read a book with a character that is a serial dater.
Little high, little low
📍 9. Read a series book with a HIGH# (like 10) or a LOW# (like 2). Tell us the number.
Any way the wind blows
📍 10. Read a book with no words larger than five letters in the title.
05.Most of All You-Mia Sheridan 7/14/22


Doesn't really matter to me, to me
📍 11. Read a book whose title begins with D.
06.Deserve Me-Nia Arthurs 2/10/22
Mama, just killed a man
📍 12. Read a book where a person confesses to murder.
Put a gun against his head
📍 13. Read a book with a gun on the cover (show cover).
07.Sniper's Nest-C.M. Sutter 6/19/22
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
📍 14. Read a book where a person is killed with a gun.
Mama, life had just begun
📍 15. Read a book where a baby is born OR with an infant in the story.
08.Winter's Touch-Jamie Begley 11/07/21


But now I've gone and thrown it all away
📍 16. Read a book where a person ruins their life. Tell us how.
Mama, ooh
📍 17. Read a book with a character that is a mother.
09.Secrets Never Die-Melinda Leigh 10/31/21
Didn't mean to make you cry
📍 18. Read a book where a mother cries over their child.
10.Piece of My Heart-Nicole Jacquelyn 11/02/21
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
📍 19. Read a book where a character promises to meet another.
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
📍 20. Read a book where a character walks away from their life.



Too late, my time has come
📍 21. Read a book where a character finally gets what they want from life.
Sends shivers down my spine
📍 22. Read a book where a character is excited or anxious.
Body's aching all the time
📍 23. Read a book where a character has body pain.
11.Craving Constellations-Nicole Jacquelyn 10/15/21
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
📍 24. Read a book with the word GOODBYE in the text. Share page/loc #.
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
📍 25. Read a book where a character stops pretending about or hiding their sexuality of any kind.



Mama, ooh (Any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
📍 26. Read a book where a character feels they are a burden to their family.
12.Keeping What’s His: Tate-Jamie Begley 11/01/21
I see a little silhouetto of a man
📍 27. Read a book with a silhouette of a man on the cover (show cover).
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
📍 28. Read a book with a boastful coward.
Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me
📍 29. Read a book where a character hears thunder and lightning.
(Galileo) Galileo
(Galileo) Galileo
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
📍 30. Read a book from the Christian genre.



I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
📍 31. Read a book whose location begins with a letter in MONSTROSITY. Share the location.
(San Francisco)
13.Breakout-Stephanie Kay 10/23/21
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
📍 32. Read a book where a relationship that is acquired without effort may be abandoned or lost casually and without regret.
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (Let him go!)
📍 33. Read a book where you find the phrase “In the name of God” in the text - Share the page/loc#.
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let him go!)
📍 34. Read a book where a character dies and comes back to life.
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let me go!)
📍 35. Read a book with a sub-title.



Will not let you go (Let me go!)
📍 36. Read a book with the phrases LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in the title.
14.I'll Never Let You Go-Mary Burton 7/27/22
Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)
📍 37. Search the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO and read a different book by an author who has the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in one of their titles.
15.Kelly Rimmer-When I Lost You 6/06/22
Oh oh oh oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go)
📍 38. Read a book with a page count using these numbers only: 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4. Two number minimum.
(344)
16.A Merciful Silence-Kendra Elliot 12/02/21
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me
📍 39. Read a book with a devil or demon in the story.
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
📍 40. Read a book where a parent disagrees with their child's life choices.



Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
📍 41. Read a book where one character calls another baby.
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
📍 42. Read a book where a character uses a "colloquial" word, like gotta, outta, wanna, getta, etc. Tell us the word they used.
Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
📍 43. Read a book with a repeated word in the title.
17.Run Girl Run-Willow Rose 10/08/21
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
📍 44. Read a book with a three word title.
18.Trouble After Dark-Marie Force 1/22/22
Nothing really matters to me
📍 45. Read a book whose title begins with N.
19.No Other Way-Willow Rose 11/11/21
Any way the wind blows...
📍 46. Read a book with the words WIND BLOWS in the title or series name.
20.Where The Wind Blows-Simone Beaudelaire 6/08/22

WOOHOO Frankie!

Completion Post for Msg #36

Bohemian Rhapsody
Duration: 10/1/21 - 9/30/22
Level: Fantasy: (25 tasks)
Progress: 28 of 25

~The Lyrics~
Is this the real life?
📍 1. Read a nonfiction book.
Is this just fantasy?
🎤 2. Read a book tagged fantasy.
Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning (12/9/21)
Caught in a landslide
📍 3. Read a book where a landslide actually occurs.
No escape from reality
🎤 4. Read a book where a character wants to escape. Tell us from where.
Addiction by Ivy Smoak (12/4/21) ~ from new life

Open your eyes
🎤 5. Read a book with a 12 intact in the publication date.
Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones (12/4/21) ~ published 2012
Look up to the skies and see
🎤 6. Read a book with the sky on the cover (show cover).
by Becky Chambers (12/28/21)
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
🎤 7. Read a book with a young male character.
The Ring of Fire by Chris Bradford (11/5/21)
Because I'm easy come, easy go
📍 8. Read a book with a character that is a serial dater.
Little high, little low
🎤 9. Read a series book with a HIGH# (like 10) or a LOW# (like 2). Tell us the number.
12th of Never by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (12/16/21) ~ Women's Murder Club #12
Any way the wind blows
🎤 10. Read a book with no words larger than five letters in the title.
Float Plan by Trish Doller (11/6/21)
Doesn't really matter to me, to me
📍 11. Read a book whose title begins with D.
Mama, just killed a man
📍 12. Read a book where a person confesses to murder.
Put a gun against his head
📍 13. Read a book with a gun on the cover (show cover).
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
📍 14. Read a book where a person is killed with a gun.
Mama, life had just begun
🎤 15. Read a book where a baby is born OR with an infant in the story.
Folsom by Tarryn Fisher & Willow Aster (12/20/21)
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
🎤 16. Read a book where a person ruins their life. Tell us how.
Temptation by Ivy Smoak (10/4/21) ~ affair and scandal

Mama, ooh
🎤 17. Read a book with a character that is a mother.
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (10/9/21)
Didn't mean to make you cry
📍 18. Read a book where a mother cries over their child.
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
🎤 19. Read a book where a character promises to meet another.
Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce (12/10/21)
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
🎤 20. Read a book where a character walks away from their life.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly (11/2/21) ~ leaves teaching to become a computer

Too late, my time has come
🎤 21. Read a book where a character finally gets what they want from life.
Vanished by Irene Hannon (10/12/21) ~ Cal gets another chance at love
Sends shivers down my spine
🎤 22. Read a book where a character is excited or anxious.
Mirror Image by Sandra Brown (11/16/21)
Body's aching all the time
🎤 23. Read a book where a character has body pain.
Midnight's Daughter by Karen Chance (10/15/21) ~ tortured
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
📍 24. Read a book with the word GOODBYE in the text. Share page/loc #.
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
🎤 25. Read a book where a character stops pretending about or hiding their sexuality of any kind.
The Harlech Beach Killings by Simon McCleave (12/8/21) ~ Ruth involved with Siobhan

Mama, ooh (Any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
📍 26. Read a book where a character feels they are a burden to their family.

I see a little silhouetto of a man
📍 27. Read a book with a silhouette of a man on the cover (show cover).
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
🎤 8. Read a book with a boastful coward.
Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce (12/10/21)
Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me
🎤 29. Read a book where a character hears thunder and lightning.
Heat Lightning by John Sanford (12/12/21)
(Galileo) Galileo
(Galileo) Galileo
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
🎤 30. Read a book from the Christian genre.
Trapped by Irene Hannon (11/29/21)

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
🎤 31. Read a book whose location begins with a letter in MONSTROSITY. Share the location.
The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning (11/25/21) ~ Scottish Highlands

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
🎤 32. Read a book where a relationship that is acquired without effort may be abandoned or lost casually and without regret.
Honeymoon by James Patterson & Howard Roughan (12/30/21)
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (Let him go!)
📍 33. Read a book where you find the phrase “In the name of God” in the text - Share the page/loc#.
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let him go!)
🎤 34. Read a book where a character dies and comes back to life.
Total Surrender by Rebecca Zanetti (11/8/21)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let me go!)
🎤 35. Read a book with a sub-title.
Summer Flame: A Beach Read Romantic Comedy by Hayleigh Sol (10/2/21)
Will not let you go (Let me go!)
📍 36. Read a book with the phrases LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in the title.
Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)
📍 37. Search the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO and read a different book by an author who has the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in one of their titles.
Ex. Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer, you decide to read The Things We Cannot Say.
Mary Burton, Chesea Cain, Clare Mackintosh,

Oh oh oh oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go)
🎤 38. Read a book with a page count using these numbers only: 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4. Two number minimum.
Ex. 223, 443, 332, etc. Share the page count.
My Soul to Steal by Rachel Vincent (10/24/21) ~ 343 pages
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me
📍 39. Read a book with a devil or demon in the story.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
🎤 40. Read a book where a parent disagrees with their child's life choices.
Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb (10/8/21) ~ Delia Peabody's parents are Free-Ager hippy types
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
🎤 41. Read a book where one character calls another baby.
Hostage to Pleasure by Nalini Singh (12/2/21)
p. 195 - "Shaya, baby, I'm not that good."
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
📍 42. Read a book where a character uses a "colloquial" word, like gotta, outta, wanna, getta, etc. Tell us the word they used.

Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
📍 43. Read a book with a repeated word in the title.

Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
🎤 44. Read a book with a three word title.
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz (10/28/21)
Nothing really matters to me
🎤 45. Read a book whose title begins with N.
A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare (10/18/21)

Any way the wind blows...
📍 46. Read a book with the words WIND BLOWS in the title or series name.

WOOHOO Marla!

FINISHED!
Bohemian Rhapsody
Duration: October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022

Levels:
Landslide: 31+ tasks
Read: 46/31+ (46 possible)


📍 1. Read a nonfiction book.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance 10/6/21

📍 2. Read a book tagged fantasy.
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore 12/13/21

📍 3. Read a book where a landslide actually occurs.
Fresh Eyes on Jesus’ Parables: Discovering New Insights in Familiar Passages by Doug Newton 4/19/22 (p. 186: "...around the same time the flooding in Houston in 2017 captured our national attention, hundreds more people died from flooding and landslides in Africa.")

📍 4. Read a book where a character wants to escape. Tell us from where.
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis -- The prince wants to escape his underground, enchanted imprisonment. 10/26/21

📍 5. Read a book with a 12 intact in the publication date.
The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen (March 6, 2012) Finished reading 10/19/21

📍 6. Read a book with the sky on the cover (show cover).
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg 11/2/21

📍 7. Read a book with a young male character.
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook 10/18/21

📍 8. Read a book with a character that is a serial dater.
The Marriage Game by Sara Desai 4/25/22

📍 9. Read a series book with a HIGH# (like 10) or a LOW# (like 2). The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey (Peter Diamond series, #1) 10/5/21

📍 10. Read a book with no words larger than five letters in the title.
Death Match by Lincoln Child 10/21/21

📍 11. Read a book whose title begins with D.
Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich 10/22/21

📍 12. Read a book where a person confesses to murder.
The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit by Krista Davis 3/7/22

📍 13. Read a book with a gun on the cover (show cover).
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

📍 14. Read a book where a person is killed with a gun.
Face of Death by Blake Pierce 2/21/22

📍 15. Read a book where a baby is born OR with an infant in the story.
Sleep Like a Baby by Charlaine Harris 11/15/21

📍 16. Read a book where a person ruins their life. Tell us how.
Evangellyfish by Douglas Wilson- a megachurch pastor has multiple affairs 12/20/21

📍 17. Read a book with a character that is a mother.
The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine by Alex Brunkhorst 3/4/22

📍 18. Read a book where a mother cries over their child.
The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders by Stella Sands 3/24/22

📍 19. Read a book where a character promises to meet another.
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld 2/13/22

📍 20. Read a book where a character walks away from their life.
A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder by Fiona Grace 11/30/21

📍 21. Read a book where a character finally gets what they want from life.
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin 2/27/22

📍 22. Read a book where a character is excited or anxious.
Death in the Sunshine by Steph Broadribb 3/20/22

📍 23. Read a book where a character has body pain.
On the Rocks by Mia Gold 3/2/22

📍 24. Read a book with the word GOODBYE in the text. Share page/loc #.
The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall (audiobook, part 4, 28 minutes & 30 seconds: "Thank you, Emily. Goodbye." 2/15/22

📍 25. Read a book where a character stops pretending about or hiding their sexuality of any kind.
Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne 3/1/22

📍 26. Read a book where a character feels they are a burden to their family.
The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak 4/28/22

📍 27. Read a book with a silhouette of a man on the cover (show cover).
MatchUp, edited by Lee Child 3/18/22

📍 28. Read a book with a boastful coward.
Killing Season by Faye Kellerman 4/29/22 (J.D., the boastful football star, to whom Ben says, "Don't blame me for your poor behavior. That's plain cowardly.")

📍 29. Read a book where a character hears thunder and lightning.
Sunburn by Laura Lippman 4/18/22 (Audiobook, Part 5[?-I forgot to note it before returning the book!], 10:50: "He feels as if he heard the thunder first, then saw the lightning, but that's not how it works.")

📍 30. Read a book from the Christian genre.
Once Upon a Prince by Rachel Hauck by 11/24/21

📍 31. Read a book whose location begins with a letter in MONSTROSITY. Share the location.
The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro (Massachusetts) 3/17/22

📍 32. Read a book where a relationship that is acquired without effort may be abandoned or lost casually and without regret.
Christmas, Criminals, and Campers by Tonya Kappes 3/18/22

📍 33. Read a book where you find the phrase “In the name of God” in the text - Share the page/loc#.
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 8/16/22 (Audiobook, 3:36:48 - "The phrase 'in the name of God' can allow a speaker to . . . ")

📍 34. Read a book where a character dies and comes back to life.
When Jesus Wept by Bodie Thoene 3/31/22

📍 35. Read a book with a sub-title.
Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C.S. Lewis by Terry Lindvall

📍 36. Read a book with the phrases LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in the title.
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh 3/30/22

📍 37. Search the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO and read a different book by an author who has the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in one of their titles. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 5/18/22

📍 38. Read a book with a page count using these numbers only: 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4. Two number minimum. Ex. 223, 443, 332, etc. Share the page count. The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs 7/25/22 - Last page number in the book is 342. (Goodreads has a higher count, possibly including the introduction, which is numbered separately.)

📍 39. Read a book with a devil or demon in the story.
Shadowseer: London by Morgan Rice 2/9/22

📍 40. Read a book where a parent disagrees with their child's life choices.
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity by Nabeel Qureshi 2/14/22

📍 41. Read a book where one character calls another baby.
Ice Cap: A Mystery by Chris Knopf (page 192 -- "Twenty-first century, baby!") 2/23/22

📍 42. Read a book where a character uses a "colloquial" word, like gotta, outta, wanna, getta, etc. Tell us the word they used.
12 Bodies and a Wedding by Stephanie Bond ("gonna" at 4:10:04 in the audiobook) 2/28/22

📍 43. Read a book with a repeated word in the title.
Liar, Liarby K.J. Larsen 1/27/22

📍 44. Read a book with a three word title.
Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron 11/29/21

📍 45. Read a book whose title begins with N.
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

📍 46. Read a book with the words WIND BLOWS in the title or series name. The Wind Blows Death by Cyril Hare 7/5/22

WOOHOO Shannon!

FINISHED

Bohemian Rhapsody
Duration: October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022

Levels:

Fantasy: 19/ 16-30 tasks



📍 1. Read a nonfiction book.
Queen Elizabeth II: A Birthday Souvenir Album by Jane Roberts 10/5/2021
📍 2. Read a book tagged fantasy.
Flunked by Jen Calonita10/27/2022
📍 4. Read a book where a character wants to escape. Tell us from where. She wants to escape form her abusive husband and goes to Nashville.
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson 4/19/2022
Open your eyes
📍 6. Read a book with the sky on the cover (show cover).
by Kathi Daley 12/16/2021
📍 7. Read a book with a young male character.
The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton 11/21/2022
📍 8. Read a book with a character that is a serial dater.
Life After Joe by Harper Fox 9/26/2022
📍 9. Read a series book with a HIGH#.
A Saucy Taste of Murder by Patti Benning 4/22/2022 (#34)
📍 10. Read a book with no words larger than five letters in the title.
Where Death Meets the Devil by L.J. Hayward 7/22/2022
📍 11. Read a book whose title begins with D.
Dyeing Season by Karen MacInerney 11/11/2021
📍 13. Read a book with a gun on the cover (show cover).
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
by L.A. Witt 6/13/2022
📍 17. Read a book with a character that is a mother.
Latte Trouble by Cleo Coyle 6/27/2022
📍 20. Read a book where a character walks away from their life.
One Book in the Grave by Kate Carlisle 8/17/2022
📍 21. Read a book where a character finally gets what they want from life.
You & Me by Tal Bauer 9/24/2022
📍 23. Read a book where a character has body pain.
Barrel Proof by Layla Reyne 8/15/2022
📍 25. Read a book where a character stops pretending about or hiding their sexuality of any kind.
Can't Hide from Me by Cordelia Kingsbridge 5/11/2022
📍 40. Read a book where a parent disagrees with their child's life choices.
Devil's Hour by Aimee Nicole Walker 8/27/2022
📍 43. Read a book with a repeated word in the title.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star by Jane Cabrera 7/25/2022
📍 44. Read a book with a three word title.
Partners in Lime by Bree Baker 7/30/2022
📍 45. Read a book whose title begins with N.
Noddy And His Car by Enid Blyton 7/23/2022

Done


Completed: 17 tasks

~The Lyrics~
Is this the real life?
📍 1. Read a nonfiction book.
Beautiful Country - Qian Julie Wang (7/18/22)

Is this just fantasy?
📍 2. Read a book tagged fantasy.
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (10.8.21)

Caught in a landslide
📍 3. Read a book where a landslide actually occurs.

No escape from reality
📍 4. Read a book where a character wants to escape. Tell us from where.
Cress - Marissa Meyer Cress wants to escape the satellite the Queen has trapped her on (11/2/21)

Open your eyes
📍 5. Read a book with a 12 intact in the publication date.
Strawberries and Crime - Elle Brooke White published Oct. 12, 2021 (4/30/22)

Look up to the skies and see
📍 6. Read a book with the sky on the cover (show cover).
- Vicki Delany (12/19/21)

I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
📍 7. Read a book with a young male character.
The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan (7/2/22)

Because I'm easy come, easy go
📍 8. Read a book with a character that is a serial dater.

Little high, little low
📍 9. Read a series book with a HIGH# (like 10) or a LOW# (like 2).
Six Cats a Slayin' - Miranda James - Cat in the Stacks #10 (12/6/21)

Any way the wind blows
📍 10. Read a book with no words larger than five letters in the title.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown - Talia Hibbert (1/26/22)

Doesn't really matter to me, to me
📍 11. Read a book whose title begins with D.

Mama, just killed a man
📍 12. Read a book where a person confesses to murder.
How to Book a Murder by Cynthia Kuhn (10.11.21)

Put a gun against his head
📍 13. Read a book with a gun on the cover (show cover).

Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
📍 14. Read a book where a person is killed with a gun.

Mama, life had just begun
📍 15. Read a book where a baby is born OR with an infant in the story.
The Dream Daughter - Diane Chamberlain (9/7/22)

But now I've gone and thrown it all away
📍 16. Read a book where a person ruins their life. Tell us how.

Mama, ooh
📍 17. Read a book with a character that is a mother.
Pasta Imperfect - Maddy Hunter (9/19/22)

Didn't mean to make you cry
📍 18. Read a book where a mother cries over their child.

If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
📍 19. Read a book where a character promises to meet another.

Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
📍 20. Read a book where a character walks away from their life.

Too late, my time has come
📍 21. Read a book where a character finally gets what they want from life.
A Wedding in Tuscany - Sandy Barker (7/19/22)

Sends shivers down my spine
📍 22. Read a book where a character is excited or anxious.

Body's aching all the time
📍 23. Read a book where a character has body pain.

Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
📍 24. Read a book with the word GOODBYE in the text. Share page/loc #.

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
📍 25. Read a book where a character stops pretending about or hiding their sexuality of any kind.
The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun (6/26/22)

Mama, ooh (Any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
📍 26. Read a book where a character feels they are a burden to their family.
The Wedding Ringer - Kerry Rea (6/13/22)

I see a little silhouette of a man
📍 27. Read a book with a silhouette of a man on the cover (show cover).

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
📍 28. Read a book with a boastful coward.

Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me
📍 29. Read a book where a character hears thunder and lightning.

(Galileo) Galileo
(Galileo) Galileo
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
📍 30. Read a book from the Christian genre.
Tacos for Two - Betsy St. Amant (10/30/21)

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
📍 31. Read a book whose location begins with a letter in MONSTROSITY. Share the location.
Heart and Seoul - Jen Frederick Seoul (1/22/22)

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
📍 32. Read a book where a relationship that is acquired without effort may be abandoned or lost casually and without regret.

Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (Let him go!)
📍 33. Read a book where you find the phrase “In the name of God” in the text - Share the page/loc#.

Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let him go!)
📍 34. Read a book where a character dies and comes back to life.

Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let me go!)
📍 35. Read a book with a sub-title.

Will not let you go (Let me go!)
📍 36. Read a book with the phrases LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in the title.

Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)
📍 37. Search the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO and read a different book by an author who has the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in one of their titles.
Ex. Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer, you decide to read The Things We Cannot Say.

Oh oh oh oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go)
📍 38. Read a book with a page count using these numbers only: 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4. Two number minimum.
Ex. 223, 443, 332, etc. Share the page count.

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me
📍 39. Read a book with a devil or demon in the story.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
📍 40. Read a book where a parent disagrees with their child's life choices.

Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
📍 41. Read a book where one character calls another baby.

Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
📍 42. Read a book where a character uses a "colloquial" word, like gotta, outta, wanna, getta, etc. Tell us the word they used.

Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
📍 43. Read a book with a repeated word in the title.

Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
📍 44. Read a book with a three word title.
Masking for Trouble - Diane Vallere (10/24/21)

Nothing really matters to me
📍 45. Read a book whose title begins with N.

Any way the wind blows...
📍 46. Read a book with the words WIND BLOWS in the title or series name.

WOOHOO Genevieve and Kimberly!

Completed!
39 tasks

Bohemian Rhapsody
Duration: October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022

Levels:
Landslide: 31+ tasks


~The Lyrics~
Is this the real life?
📍 1. Read a nonfiction book.
The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today by Shannon Bream 10.22.21
Is this just fantasy?
📍 2. Read a book tagged fantasy.
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner 10.17.21
Caught in a landslide
📍 3. Read a book where a landslide actually occurs.
No escape from reality
📍 4. Read a book where a character wants to escape. Tell us from where.
Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowen 10.22.21 (MC gets stuck in a wardrobe)

Open your eyes
📍 5. Read a book with a 12 intact in the publication date.
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl 10.17.21 (originally published 9/12/70
Look up to the skies and see
📍 6. Read a book with the sky on the cover (show cover).
Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe 10.06.21
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
📍 7. Read a book with a young male character.
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia 10.27.21 (MC is in high school)
Because I'm easy come, easy go
📍 8. Read a book with a character that is a serial dater.
Summer House by Nancy Thayer 07.12.22 (character is dating someone at the beginning of the book,then dates one of the MCs, and finally dates the MC cousin)
Little high, little low
📍 9. Read a series book with a HIGH# (like 10) or a LOW# (like 2). Tell us the number.
Sweet Revenge by Andrea Penrose 10.22.21 #1
Any way the wind blows
📍 10. Read a book with no words larger than five letters in the title.
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff 11.02.21
Doesn't really matter to me, to me
📍 11. Read a book whose title begins with D.
Dire Threads by Janet Bolin 01.03.22
Mama, just killed a man
📍 12. Read a book where a person confesses to murder.
All Fudged Up by Nancy CoCo 10.18.21 (killer confessed to MC)
Put a gun against his head
📍 13. Read a book with a gun on the cover (show cover).
Last Call by Allyson K. Abbott 06.14.22
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
📍 14. Read a book where a person is killed with a gun.
Spirit Lake by Vickie McKeehan 10.23.21 (character is killed by murderer and it is staged as a suicide)
Mama, life had just begun
📍 15. Read a book where a baby is born OR with an infant in the story.
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis 10.17.21 (one of the MC has a baby)
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
📍 16. Read a book where a person ruins their life. Tell us how.
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty 01.28.22 (one of the characters cheats on his wife and she leaves him and remarries, he still loves her)

Mama, ooh
📍 17. Read a book with a character that is a mother.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 10.13.21 (MC is a mother of two)
Didn't mean to make you cry
📍 18. Read a book where a mother cries over their child.
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark 12.31.21 (victim's mother cries during court trial)
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
📍 19. Read a book where a character promises to meet another.
Billionaire Blend by Cleo Coyle 01.05.22 (mc and boyfriend are long distance and she promises to come to where he is for the weekend)
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
📍 20. Read a book where a character walks away from their life.
One Little Lie by Colleen Coble 12.09.21 (mc and her leave a cult and her mom)

Too late, my time has come
📍 21. Read a book where a character finally gets what they want from life.
Two Reasons to Run by Colleen Coble 12.15.21 (mc gets a relationship with her son after 15 years apart)
Sends shivers down my spine
📍 22. Read a book where a character is excited or anxious
The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox 12.04.21 (mc is anxious about a promotion)
Body's aching all the time
📍 23. Read a book where a character has body pain
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy 12.20.21 (mc has a condition where if someone gets hurt in front of her, she feels it as if it happened to her)
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
📍 24. Read a book with the word GOODBYE in the text. Share page/loc #.
Broomsticks and Burials by Lily Webb 02.11.22 (page 9)
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
📍 25. Read a book where a character stops pretending about or hiding their sexuality of any kind.
A Holiday Yarn by Sally Goldenbaum 12.29.21 (character comes out as gay)

Mama, ooh (Any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
📍 26. Read a book where a character feels they are a burden to their family.
Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts 02.26.22 (mc comes to live with extended family as an orphaned child and she feels like she needs to repay them even once she becomes an adult)

I see a little silhouetto of a man
📍 27. Read a book with a silhouette of a man on the cover (show cover).
You Better Knot Die by Betty Hechtman 11.08.21
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
📍 28. Read a book with a boastful coward.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling 02.03.22 (Draco Malfoy)
Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me
📍 29. Read a book where a character hears thunder and lightning.
A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil 01.16.22
(Galileo) Galileo
(Galileo) Galileo
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
📍 30. Read a book from the Christian genre.
Chapel Springs Revival by Ane Mulligan 12.11.21

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
📍 31. Read a book whose location begins with a letter in MONSTROSITY. Share the location.
Cinnamon Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke 11.18.21 (Minnesota)

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
📍 32. Read a book where a relationship that is acquired without effort may be abandoned or lost casually and without regret.
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (Let him go!)
📍 33. Read a book where you find the phrase “In the name of God” in the text - Share the page/loc#.
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let him go!)
📍 34. Read a book where a character dies and comes back to life.
Bran New Death by Victoria Hamilton 05.09.22 (character is considered dead by the whole town but then turns up alive)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let me go!)
📍 35. Read a book with a sub-title.
The Post-Quarantine Church: Six Urgent Challenges and Opportunities That Will Determine the Future of Your Congregation by Thom S. Rainer 01.27.22
Will not let you go (Let me go!)
📍 36. Read a book with the phrases LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in the title.
Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)
📍 37. Search the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO and read a different book by an author who has the phrase LET ME GO/LET YOU GO in one of their titles.
Ex. Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer, you decide to read The Things We Cannot Say.

Oh oh oh oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go)
📍 38. Read a book with a page count using these numbers only: 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4. Two number minimum.
Ex. 223, 443, 332, etc. Share the page count.
Prose and Cons by Amanda Flower 11.14.21 Pages 323
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me
📍 39. Read a book with a devil or demon in the story.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
📍 40. Read a book where a parent disagrees with their child's life choices.
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen 12.21.21 (character tries to stop daughter from being friends with a boy from their rival family)
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
📍 41. Read a book where one character calls another baby.
Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe by Max Lucado 02.25.22 page 148
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
📍 42. Read a book where a character uses a "colloquial" word, like gotta, outta, wanna, getta, etc. Tell us the word they used.
Unlikely Friends by Sahar Abdulaziz 03.12.22 (gotta pg 122)

Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
📍 43. Read a book with a repeated word in the title.
A Case of Syrah, Syrah by Nancy J. Parra 09.13.22

Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
📍 44. Read a book with a three word title.
One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon
Nothing really matters to me 12.24.21
📍 45. Read a book whose title begins with N.
The Next Always by Nora Roberts 08.15.22


Any way the wind blows...
📍 46. Read a book with the words WIND BLOWS in the title or series name.

WOOHOO Amber!