Hooked on Books discussion

Duration: June 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023

Challenge Rules:
Standard Challenge Rules apply, plus...
🔸Rereads are allowed, but must have been read more than 6 months ago.
🔸One book per prompt/task.
🔸Follow your own time zone. If you finish the book between the challenge dates in your time zone, it counts.

Task Rules:
You must be able to justify how your book fits the prompt. Creativity is encouraged, but please hold to the task/prompt.
🔹Cover Color must be more than 50% (https://labs.tineye.com/color/)
🔹List page number, percentage, or chapter for word in text
🔹Cover Items should be shown or mentioned in your completion posts (ie cover image)
🔹Short explanation for other tasks for proof of task completion

📌Make sure that you have notifications turned on, so that you don't miss updates, bonus task notices, etc.

⛱️ Once you complete your book/task, post a link back to your completion comment here: Completion Thread , and I will confirm and give you your next question!

1st question will be posted after 29-May!

Please do your Completion Post in your thread! It should look something like this:


Question: Would you rather swim or fly?
I would rather... swim
Date Finished: 23-May-2023
How it fits: "Swim" in text / "...let's go for a swim." pg 27

Then, go to the Completion Thread and post a link back to your post.

🏖️1st Question
Don't forget, books cannot be started or completed before 1-June (your time zone)!

Would You Rather… …go fishing or go waterskiing?
🔸Read a book where the MCs go fishing
🔸Read a book where the MCs do some sort of water sport

Question: Would You Rather… …go fishing or go waterskiing?
Book: Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson
Date: 1/6 3.5★
Task: Read a book where the MCs do some sort of water sport
How it fits: MCs go swimming together

🏖️2nd Question!!

Would You Rather… ...see a sunset or sunrise?
🔸Read a book with a sunset on the cover or where the MCs watch the sunset
🔸Read a book with a sunrise on the cover or where the MCs watch the sunrise

Question: Would You Rather… see a sunset or sunrise?
Book: Undead and Unappreciated by MaryJanice Davidson
Date: 1/6 3★
Task: where the MCs watch the sunset
How it fits: "we watched the sun go down together" p.95

🏖️3rd Question

Would You Rather… …watch the clouds during the day or see the stars at night?
🔸Read a book with clouds on the cover
🔸Read a book with stars on the cover

Question: Would You Rather… see a sunset or sunrise?
Book: Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Date: 2/6 3★
Task: stars on the cover
How it fits:

🏖️4th Question

Would You Rather… …spend summer on a farm or in the big city?
🔸Read a book set on a farm
🔸Read a book set in a big city

Question: Would You Rather… spend summer on a farm or in the big city?
Book: Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb
Date: 3/6 3★
Task: set in a big city
How it fits: set in New York

🏖️5th Question

Would You Rather… …go the mountains for the summer or go to the beach?
🔸Read a book with mountains on the cover
🔸Read a book with a beach on the cover

Question: Would You Rather… go the mountains for the summer or go to the beach?
Book: You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
Date: 7/6 3★
Task: mountains on cover
How it fits:

🏖️6th Question

Would You Rather… …swim in the ocean or swim in a pool?
🔸Read a book with an ocean or beach on the cover
🔸Read a book with a pool on the cover

Question: Would You Rather… swim in the ocean or swim in a pool?
Book: Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Date: 12/6 2.5★
Task: ocean on the cover
How it fits:

🏖️7th Question

Would You Rather… ...eat watermelon or pineapple?
🔸Read a book with a red cover
🔸Read a book with a yellow cover

Is this red enough?

Question: Would You Rather… eat watermelon or pineapple?
Book: Watchers in the Night by Jenna Black
Date: 18/6 3★
Task: red cover
How it fits:

I'll take it!

🏖️8th Question

Would You Rather… …spend summer with your family in an RV or in a fancy hotel?
🔸Read a book where the MCs take a road trip
🔸Read a book where the MCs spend time in a fancy hotel

Question: I'd Rather… spend summer with your family in a fancy hotel
Book: The Skeptical Heart by Teresa DesJardien
Date: 29/6 2★
Task: MCs take a road trip
How it fits: MCs take a road trip across the European Continent on a mission

🏖️9th Question

Would You Rather… ...go on a European vacation or an Australian vacation?
🔸Read a book set in Europe
🔸Read a book set in Australia

Question: I'd Rather… go on a European vacation
Book: Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
Date: 30/6 5★
Task: Read a book set in Europe
How it fits: set in Europe

🏖️10th Question

Would You Rather… ...be able to fly or be able to breathe underwater?
🔸Read a book where the MC can fly
🔸Read a book where the MC goes underwater

Question: I'd Rather… be able to fly
Book: The Barrakee Mystery by Arthur W. Upfield
Date: 9/7 3.5★
Task: MC goes underwater
How it fits: MC goes underwater

🏖️11th Question

Would You Rather… …live on a boat for the summer or live in a tree house?
🔸Read a book where the MCs are on a boat
🔸Read a book with a tree on the cover

Question 11: live in a tree house
Book: Bloodtree River by Sarah Barrie
Date: 10/7 4★
Task: tree on the cover
How it fits:

🏖️12th Question

Would You Rather… ...run through the sprinklers or have a squirt gunfight?
🔸Read a book where there is a rain storm
🔸Read a book where there is a gunfight or someone is shot

Question 12: I'd rather run through the sprinklers
Book: Summer of Hopes and Dreams by Sue McDonagh
Date: 11/7 3.5★
Task: book where there's a rain storm
Fits: such a big storm that the place was flooded

🏖️13th Question

Would You Rather… …be a lifeguard or a carnival ride operator?
🔸Read a book with a lifeguard
🔸Read a book with a carnival

Q13: Carnival ride operator
Book: Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
Date: 21/7 2.5★
Task: with a carnival
Fits: a carnival on the pier

Sorry for the delay Catsalive! I someone missed the notification! :)

🏖️14th Question

Would You Rather… ...wear sunglasses or a swimsuit everywhere you go all summer?
🔸Read a book with sunglasses on the cover
🔸Read a book with a swimsuit on the cover

🏖️Happy Reading!

Would You Rather

…ride a rollercoaster or have a picnic?
🔸Read a book with a "rollercoater" romance
🔸Read a book where the MCs go on a picnic

...have to wear a swimsuit for a day in the winter or wear a snowsuit for a day in the summer?
🔸Read a book set in Summer
🔸Read a book set in Winter

…walk barefoot on grass or walk barefoot in the sand?
🔸Read a book with grass on the cover
🔸Read a book with sand on the cover

...go white water rafting or zip lining?
🔸Read a book with a white cover
🔸Read a book with a Z in the title

...have starfish for hands or pink flamingo legs?
🔸Read a book with a star on the cover
🔸Read a book with a pink cover

...watch the waves at the beach or a thunderstorm from a cabin?
🔸Read a book where the MCs go to the beach
🔸Read a book where the MCs live/vacation in a cabin

…get really bad sunburn or get stung by a jellyfish?
🔸Read a book where the MC gets burned (any type of burn)
🔸Read a book where the MC gets stung by something

…float in the pool on a giant unicorn or a giant dragon?
🔸Read a book with a unicorn
🔸Read a book with a dragon

...spend a month tent camping in a jungle or a month tent camping in a forest?
🔸Read a book where the MCs go to a jungle
🔸Read a book where the MCs go to a forest

...carry around 10 coconuts or 5 watermelons everywhere you go?
🔸Read a book with a 10 in the publication date
🔸Read a book with a 5 in the page count

...run through a field of sunflowers or paddle down a river?
🔸Read a book with flowers on the cover
🔸Read a book with a river on the cover

Would You Rather
12/12

...wear sunglasses or a swimsuit everywhere you go all summer?
🔸Read a book with sunglasses on the cover
🔸Read a book with a swimsuit on the cover
by Enid Blyton 21/12 4★

…ride a rollercoaster or have a picnic?
🔸Read a book with a "rollercoaster" romance
🔸Read a book where the MCs go on a picnic
Bonjour, Miss Seeton by Hamilton Crane 16/8 3.5★

...have to wear a swimsuit for a day in the winter or wear a snowsuit for a day in the summer?
🔸Read a book set in Summer
🔸Read a book set in Winter
A Christmas Kiss by Elizabeth Mansfield 29/7 3★

…walk barefoot on grass or walk barefoot in the sand?
🔸Read a book with grass on the cover
by Faith Bleasdale 3/8 3★
🔸Read a book with sand on the cover

...go white water rafting or zip lining?
🔸Read a book with a white cover
The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs 1/8 2.5★
🔸Read a book with a Z in the title

...have starfish for hands or pink flamingo legs?
🔸Read a book with a star on the cover
by Liu Cixin 15/8 3★
🔸Read a book with a pink cover

...watch the waves at the beach or a thunderstorm from a cabin?
🔸Read a book where the MCs go to the beach
Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society by Sophie Green 19/8 4★
🔸Read a book where the MCs live/vacation in a cabin

…get really bad sunburn or get stung by a jellyfish?
🔸Read a book where the MC gets burned - MC burnt in fire
10 Lb Penalty by Dick Francis 9/8 4★
🔸Read a book where the MC gets stung by something

…float in the pool on a giant unicorn or a giant dragon?
🔸Read a book with a unicorn
🔸Read a book with a dragon - Mrs Alexis is a dragon
Proof by Dick Francis 7/8 4★

...spend a month tent camping in a jungle or a month tent camping in a forest?
🔸Read a book where the MCs go to a jungle
🔸Read a book where the MCs go to a forest
The Listeners by Anthony J. Quinn 29/8 3★

...carry around 10 coconuts or 5 watermelons everywhere you go?
🔸Read a book with a 10 in the publication date - Pub. 10/1990
Longshot by Dick Francis 8/8 4★
🔸Read a book with a 5 in the page count

...run through a field of sunflowers or paddle down a river?
🔸Read a book with flowers on the cover
by L.M. Montgomery 22/8 3★
🔸Read a book with a river on the cover

Finally finished... only took 4 months to come up with swimsuit/sunglasses on cover 😎