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message 101: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:18AM) (new)

Jun 15, 2024 03:13AM

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Jun 15, 2024 08:34PM

✅ HOB - 2024 Water Balloon War

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Jun 15, 2024 09:52PM

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Jun 18, 2024 01:56AM

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message 105: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:17AM) (new)

Jun 18, 2024 07:41AM

TOAP - Rainbow of Books Colour Cover Search & SpellOut

✅ Total: 16/16

Colours of the Rainbow!!
Red -

A Guide to Additive Manufacturing (Springer Tracts in Additive Manufacturing) by Damir Godec

A Guide to Additive Manufacturing - ⭐️⭐️

Orange -

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Yellow -

Og Mandino's University of Success The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book by Og Mandino

Og Mandino's University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Blue -

The People’s Republic of Walmart How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Phillips

The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism - ⭐️⭐️

Green -

You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought (The Life 101 Series) by Peter McWilliams

You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought - ⭐️

Indigo (light purple) -

Badass Habits Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick by Jen Sincero

Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Violet (dark purple) -

Life 3.0 Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

All colours of the Rainbow -

Liquid The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik

Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Rainbow Spellout!!
R: Re-Awaken the Giant Within - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: The Seven Decisions: Understanding the Keys to Personal Success, Andy Andrews - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: The Future of Us: The Science of What We'll Eat, Where We'll Live, and Who We'll Be, Jay Ingram - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military, Neil deGrasse Tyson - ⭐️⭐️
B: Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography - ⭐️⭐️
W: Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite - ⭐️⭐️

"Rainbow" in text
Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"set up a fountain with rainbow lights in front of his desk" p.159

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message 106: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:16AM) (new)

Jun 18, 2024 08:09AM

CCC - Tango!

✅ Total: 15/15

1. Read a book set in the 19th century
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change - A couple of chapters in 1800's - ⭐️⭐️

2. Read a book with music in the story
Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography - ⭐️⭐️

3. Read a book with double consonants in the title
Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover
The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ -

The Bassoon King My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson

5. Read a book whose cover is predominantly blue & post the cover
The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism - ⭐️⭐️ -

6. Read a book set somewhere other than North America
We Can All Make It - UK - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. Read a book with more than 400 pages
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List - 961 pages - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Read a book with a character whose name starts with a letter in GOYENECHE
Ethiopia: Recipes and traditions from the horn of Africa, Yohanis Gebreyesus - Author is the chef with initials YG - ⭐️⭐️

9. Read a book where someone dies
This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America - ⭐️⭐️

10. Read a book with the title on the cover in all caps & post the cover
Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ -

Earn the Right to Win How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation by Tom Coughlin

11. Read a book with a Z in the title
Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors - ⭐️⭐️

12. Read a book that mentions a real-life product that is hugely popular
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives - Post-it Notes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

13. Read a book set in Germany
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else - ⭐️⭐️

14. Read a book with the author's last initial in BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
50 Law of Attraction Exercises, Tips & Tricks: To Hack Your Mind & Increase Your Manifestation Power, Jessica Connor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

15. Read a book whose title begins with a letter in UNESCO
The Seven Decisions: Understanding the Keys to Personal Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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message 107: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:16AM) (new)

Jun 18, 2024 08:31AM

CCC - Summer 2024 Scavenger Challenge - Rollercoasters

✅ Total: 23/23

1. Formula Rossa: Read a book whose cover shows a car prominently

The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup

- The High Cost of Free Parking - ⭐️

2. Kingda Ka: Read a book with hat on the cover

- Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Top Thrill 2: Read book #2 of a series
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope - ⭐️⭐️

4. Red Force: Read a book with a predominantly red cover

- A Guide to Additive Manufacturing - ⭐️⭐️

5. Do-dodonpa: Read a book by an author who has stopped writing for whatever reason
When Breath Becomes Air - Author died - ⭐️⭐️

6. Superman: Escape from Krypton: Read a book set in Australia
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero - Sometimes set in Australia - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. Ring Racer: Read a book whose cover shows a broken or shattered object

Your Future Self How to Make Tomorrow Better Today by Hal Hershfield

- Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Steel Dragon 2000: Read a book first published in any year of the dragon
You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought - 1988 - ⭐️

9. Fury 325: Read a book with a wasp, bee or hornet on the cover

The Song of Significance A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin

- The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams - ⭐️⭐️

10. Millennium Force: Read a book which shows a body of water prominently on the cover

Black Flags, Blue Waters The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin

- Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates - Atlantic Ocean on map - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

11. Leviathan: Read a book whose title has the format of (one word) & (one word)
Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

12. Orion: Read a book in which a pandemic is mentioned
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else - ⭐️⭐️

13. Project 305: Read a book in which a character faints
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor: Race and Gender in the Comic Books - "She also develops a tendency to become lightheaded and at times faint when straining with her powers." p.55 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

14. Goliath: Read a book that has the word Goliath or a synonym in its subtitle
Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night - Giant - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

15. Wildfire: Read a book in which climate or environment is a concern
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change - ⭐️⭐️

16. El Toro: Read a book that has a character of Mexican origin
This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America - ⭐️⭐️

17. Colossos – Kampf der Giganten: Read a book that has been translated from a language you do not speak
Zen Keys - French - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

18. Outlaw Run: Read a book in which something expensive is stolen
Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies - "corpses stolen from graves" p.88 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

19. The Voyage: Read a book with a boat on the cover

Ganbatte! The Japanese Art of Always Moving Forward by Albert Liebermann

- Ganbatte!: The Japanese Art of Always Moving Forward - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

20. The Boss: Read a book whose author shares a name with a Knight of the Round Table
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, Arthur C. Brooks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

21. American Eagle: Read a book whose cover is either predominantly blue AND has a bird on it

Sovereign Reclaim Your Freedom, Energy, and Power in a Time of Distraction, Uncertainty, and Chaos by Emma Seppälä

- Sovereign: Reclaim Your Freedom, Energy, and Power in a Time of Distraction, Uncertainty, and Chaos - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

22. The Beast: Read a book that you consider a beast of a book for whatever reason
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List - 961 pages! - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

23. T Express: Read a book with a metal name in the title.
Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors - ⭐️⭐️

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message 108: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:16AM) (new)

Jun 19, 2024 12:30AM

TOAP - Richard's Cat's Challenge

✅ 1-32

✅ Cat Breeds: #1. Abyssinian
Book: You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together
Author: Kat Timpf
Pages: 248
Date read: June 20th
Task: Read a book with someone with an expressive face on the cover
How it Fits: Frowning in a joking way

✅ Cat Breeds: #2. American Bobtail
Book: Famous Nathan: A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog
Author: Lloyd Handwerker
Pages: 317
Date Read: June 26th
Task: Read a book with a character who is very close to their family
How it Fits: Builds a generational family business

✅ Cat Breeds: #3
Book: Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners
Author: Henry Alford
Pages: 237
Date Read: June 28th
Task: Read a book with something eye-catching on the cover
How it Fits: Toilet on the cover

✅ Cat Breeds: #4
Book: The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
Author: Rainn Wilson
Pages: 314
Date Read: Jun 29th
Task: Read a book with the word "cuddling" in text
How it Fits: "didn’t really make viewers feel like cuddling up for a nice character-driven crime story" p.202

✅ Cat Breeds #5
Book: Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
Author: Tim Low
Pages: 424
Date Read: June 30th
Task: Set in Australia
How it Fits: It's set in Australia

✅ Cat Breeds #6
Book: Zen Keys
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Pages: 185
Date Read: June 30th
Task: Read a book set in Southeast Asia
How it Fits: Set & written in Vietnam

✅ Cat Breeds #7. Bengal
Book: The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith
Author: Gabrielle Bernstein
Pages: 201
Task: Read a book with author first and last initial in BENGAL
How it Fits: Author's initials are GB

✅ Cat Breed #8. Birman
Book: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Author: Devon Price
Pages: 290
Date Read: July 2nd
Task: Read a book with white cover (>50%)
How it Fits: Apart from the title, the cover is white

✅ Cat Breed #9. Bombay
Book: What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
Author: Annie Kotowicz
Pages: 118
Date Read: July 3rd
Task: Read a book with black cover (>50%)
How it Fits: Cover is black apart from the title

✅ Cat Breed #10. British Shorthair
Book: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
Author: Tim Gunn
Date Read: July 7th
Task: Read a book with a something made of gold on cover
How it Fits: Golden apple

✅ Cat Breed #11
Book: Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD
Author: Tamara Rosier
Date Read: July 7th
Task: Read a book with an MC who is energetic
How it Fits: "highly energetic and perpetually on the go as if driven by a motor." p.24

✅ Cat Breed #12. Chartreux
Book: Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
Author: Ryan Holiday
Date Read: July 9th
Task: Read a book with someone who meditates
How it Fits: Gandhi meditated

✅ Cat Breed #13. Cornish Rex
Book: The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
Author: Joseph A. Michelli
Date Read: July 10th
Task: Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in CORNISH

✅ Cat Breed #14. Devon Rex
Book: Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
Author: David Eagleman
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book with both of the author's initials in DEVON REX
How it Fits: Author's initials are DE

✅ Cat Breed #15. Egyptian Mau
Book: Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography
Author: Usain Bolt
Date Read: July 17th
Task: Read a book with an MC who is involved in sports
How it Fits: Usain is a sprinter

✅ Cat Breed #16. European Burmese
Book: Yes Please
Author: Amy Poehler
Date Read: July 21st
Task: Read a book with a exceptionally beautiful person on the cover
How it Fits:

✅ Cat Breed #17. Exotic Shorthair
Book: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Author: Sarah Silverman
Date Read: July 23rd
Task: Read a book with someone showing hair on the cover
How it Fits:

The Bedwetter Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman

✅ Cat Breed #18. Havana Brown
Book: Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures
Author: Nessa Carey
Date Read: July 24th
Task: Read a book where the title starts with a letter in HAVANA

✅ Cat Breed #19. Himalayan
Book: Faster, Smarter, Louder: Master Attention in a Noisy Digital Market
Author: Aaron Agius
Date Read: July 27th
Task: Read a book where the first & last initial of the author can be found in HIMALAYAN
How it Fits: AA

✅ Cat Breed #20. Japanese Bobtail
Book: Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
Author: Michael A. Singer
Date Read: July 28th
Task: Read a book with 2 numbers from "1968" in the page count
How it Fits: 218 pages

✅ Cat Breed #21. Korat
Book: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
Author: Patricia Schultz
Date Read: July 29th
Task: Read a book with the word "fortune" in text
How it Fits: "Ralph, who is determined, out of sheer malice, to thwart his nephew’s fortune" p.231

✅ Cat Breed #22. LaPerm
Book: Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
Author: Sara Dallin
Date Read: July 30th
Task: Read a book where the title starts with a word in LAPERM
How it Fits: Title starts with R

✅ Cat Breed #23. Maine Coon
Book: Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity
Author: Nico Tortorella
Date Read: Aug 2nd
Task: Read a book with someone muscular looking on the cover
How it Fits:

Space Between Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity by Nico Tortorella

✅ Cat Breed #24. Manx
Book: Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
Author: Max Wallace
Date Read: Aug 3rd
Task: Read a book with the word "bugs" in text
How it Fits: "That’s not the only thing that bugs me." p.152

✅ Cat Breed #25. Munchkin
Book: Mastering Erotic Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Manual for Erotic Play, Fetish, and Kink
Author: James Gordon
Date Read: Aug 8th
Task: Read a book with an someone's eyes visible on the cover
How it Fits:

Mastering Erotic Hypnosis A Comprehensive Manual for Erotic Play, Fetish, and Kink (Comprehensive Mastery Book 1) by James Gordon

✅ Cat Breed #26. Norwegian Forest
Book: 42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Date Read: Aug 9th
Task: Read a book with an athletic character
How it Fits: Jackie Robinson was a sports person

✅ Cat Breed #27. Ocicat
Book: Find Your Passion: The Ultimate No BS Workbook. 186 Questions, Prompts, and Exercises to Find Your Passion, Work on Purpose, and Leave a Lasting Legacy
Author: Gerald Confienza
Date Read: Aug 10th
Task: Read a book with something gold on the cover
How it Fits:

Find Your Passion The Ultimate No BS Workbook. 186 Questions, Prompts, and Exercises to Find Your Passion, Work on Purpose, and Leave a Lasting Legacy by Gerald Confienza

- Gold text

✅ Cat Breed #28. Oriental
Book: The Lone Assassin: The Epic True Story of the Man Who Almost Killed Hitler
Author: Helmut Ortner
Date Read: Aug 10th
Task: Read a book with someone's ears visible clearly on the cover
How it Fits:

The Lone Assassin The Epic True Story of the Man Who Almost Killed Hitler by Helmut Ortner

✅ Cat Breed #29. Persian
Book: Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch with the Earth
Author: Michael Sandler
Date Read: Aug 11th
Task: Read a book where the MC goes to a place to relax
How it Fits: "I ventured into nature to heal. At first, I could crutch only a few hundred yards, alternating deep breathing and meditation to block the pain. But then, over time, my body relaxed and began to grow stronger." p.16

✅ Cat Breed #30. Peterbald
Book: Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
Author: Bill François
Date Read: Aug 11th
Task: Read a book with something shiny on the cover
How it Fits:

Eloquence of the Sardine Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea by Bill François

- Fish scales

✅ Cat Breed #31. Pixiebob
Book: Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy
Author: Doug Wead
Date Read: Aug 20th
Task: Read a book with that takes place in any of the Pacific Northwest region
How it Fits: Set in Washington

✅ Cat Breed #32. Ragamuffin
Book: The Overthinking Cure: How to Stay in the Present, Shake Negativity, and Decode Your Stress and Anxiety
Author: Nick Trenton
Date Read: Aug 25th
Task: Read a book with some kind of doll or soft toy on the cover
How it Fits:

The Overthinking Cure How to Stay in the Present, Shake Negativity, and Decode Your Stress and Anxiety (The Path to Calm Book 4) by Nick Trenton

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message 109: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:16AM) (new)

Jun 19, 2024 01:08AM

AMMP - Richard's Small Town Pick & Choose

✅ 1-8

✅ Set 1: Alabama-California

1: Street or home on cover
Book: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Author: Chrystia Freeland
Date Read: June 21st
How it Fits:

Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland

2: Ice on cover
Book: Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change
Author: Thane Gustafson
Date Read: June 21st
How it Fits:

Klimat Russia in the Age of Climate Change by Thane Gustafson

3: Less than 351 pages
Book: You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together
Author: Kat Timpf
Date Read: June 20th
How it Fits: 248 pages

4: Starts with a letter in OZARKS
Book: Re-Awaken the Giant Within
Author: Anthony Robbins
Date Read: June 20th
How it Fits: Starts with R

5: Flowers on cover
Book: Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts—One Conversation at a Time
Author: Susan Scott
Date Read: June 22nd
How it Fits:

Fierce Love Creating a Love that Lasts—One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott

✅ Set 2:

1: Alliterative title.
Book: The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission To Make Time Travel A Reality
Author: Ronald L. Mallett
Date Read: June 28th
How it Fits: Title's initials are TTT

2: Author's first initial is found in HEPBURN.
Book: Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Date Read: June 23rd
How it Fits: Author's first initial is E

3: Anniversary
Book: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Author: Brian Christian
Date Read: June 25th
How it Fits: 40th birthday celebrated

4: Character is a scientist.
Book: The Future of Us: The Science of What We'll Eat, Where We'll Live, and Who We'll Be
Author: Jay Ingram
Date Read: June 23rd
How it Fits: Many scientists in book

5: 2-word title
Book: Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors
Author: Tom Bower
Date Read: June 24th
How it Fits: 'Nazi Gold' = 2 words

✅ Set 3:

1: Title that does NOT start with a letter in MANELE
Book: The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
Author: Rainn Wilson
Date Read: June 29th
How it Fits: Title starts with B

2: First letter of each word in the title can be found in CARIBOU-TARGHEE NATIONAL FOREST
Book: The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
Author: William Kalush
Date Read: June 29th
How it Fits: Initials of title are TSLOH

3: Odd number page count
Book: Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography
Author: Tom Jones
Date Read: June 29th
How it Fits: 503 pages

4: Set in small town
Book: Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again
Author: Reggie Watts
Date Read: June 29th
How it Fits: A lot of the book is set in Great Falls

5: Bird on the cover
Book: Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
Author: Tim Low
Date Read: June 30th
How it Fits:

Where Song Began Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low

✅ Set 4:

1: Photograph on the cover
Book: Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde
Author: Thomas Wright
Date Read: July 2nd
How it Fits:

Built of Books How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright

2: Mentions someone famous
Book: The Ultimate Journey
Author: Jim Stovall
Date Read: June 30th
How it Fits: Walt Disney is mentioned

3: Someone gives an interview
Book: If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Author: Bruce Campbell
Date Read: June 30th
How it Fits: As an actor, he gives many interviews

4: A specific season is mentioned
Book: Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
Author: Gérard Prunier
Date Read: July 2nd
How it Fits: "the arrival of the Rwandese refugees in the summer of 1994" p.202

5: Something that could be destroyed by fire on the cover
Book: Happiness Hacks: 300+ Simple Ways to Get―and Stay―Happy
Author: Adams Media
Date Read: June 30th
How it Fits: Tree

Happiness Hacks 300+ Simple Ways to Get―and Stay―Happy (Life Hacks Series) by Adams Media

✅ Set 5

1: Author's first initial is found in CUTTYHUNK
Book: 101 Ways to Be Less Stressed: Simple Self-Care Strategies to Boost Your Mind, Mood, and Mental Health
Author: Caroline Leaf
Date Read: July 3rd
How it Fits: Author's first initial is C

2: Title does NOT start with a letter in LAKE HURON
Book: Why you should give a f*ck about farming: Because you eat
Author: Gabrielle Chan
Date Read: July 3rd
How it Fits: Title starts with W

3: Title that is a play on words
Book: You Are More Than You Think You Are: Practical Enlightenment for Everyday Life
Author: Kimberly Snyder
Date Read: July 4th
How it Fits: Interesting sounding title

4: Double letters in the title
Book: 50 Mindful Steps to Self-Esteem: Everyday Practices for Cultivating Self-Acceptance & Self-Compassion
Author: Janetti Marotta
Date Read: July 3rd
How it Fits: Esteem

5: One-word title
Book: Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World
Author: Isabel Gillies
Date Read: July 3rd
How it Fits: Cozy is one word

✅ Set 6

1: Someone is known by more than one name
Book: Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back
Author: George Takei
Date Read: July 5th
How it Fits: George Takei is also known by his Star Trek character, Sulu.

2: MC's last name starts with E.
Book: Restaurant Babylon
Author: Imogen Edwards-Jones
Date Read: July 6th
How it Fits: Edwards

3: More than 19 chapters.
Book: If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails: And Other Lessons I Learned from My Mom
Author: Barbara Corcoran
Date Read: July 6th
How it Fits: 33 chapters

4: Mountains on the cover.
Book: The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success
Author: Euny Hong
Date Read: July 5th
How it Fits:

The Power of Nunchi The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success by Euny Hong

5: A day of the week in the title.
Book: Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters
Author: Laura Vanderkam
Date Read: July 5th
How it Fits: Tuesday

✅ Set 7

1: An X in the title.
Book: Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes
Author: John Wass
Date Read: July 7th
How it Fits: X in Oxford

2: Restaurant on the cover
Book: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Author: Timothy Egan
Date Read: July 9th
How it Fits:

A Fever in the Heartland The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

3: Homophone in the title.
Book: Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Rick Coleman
Date Read: July 7th
How it Fits: Blue, Blew

4: 2 people on the cover.
Book: The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show
Author: Nathan Robert Brown
Date Read: July 6th
How it Fits:

The Mythology of Supernatural The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show by Nathan Robert Brown

5: Written by a person of colour.
Book: Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration
Author: LaTasha Morrison
Date Read: July 6th
How it Fits:

✅ Set 8

1: Farm animal on the cover.
Book: FOOD DIY How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns
Author: Tim Hayward
Date Read: July 13th
How it Fits:

FOOD DIY How to Make Your Own Everything sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns by Tim Hayward

2: MC's first initial is found in LONEROCK.
Book: The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
Author: Katy Kelleher
Date Read: July 11th
How it Fits: Author's initials are KK

3: Fire on the cover
Book: The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
Author: James Rickards
Date Read: July 11th
How it Fits:

The Road to Ruin The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards

4: Boat on the cover.
Book: Ganbatte!: The Japanese Art of Always Moving Forward
Author: Albert Liebermann
Date Read: July 14th
How it Fits:

5: Less than 43 chapters
Book: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Author: Heather Clark
Date Read: July 9th
How it Fits: 35 chapters

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Jun 20, 2024 06:19AM

TCF - Richard Saves the Bees!

✅ 1-6

✅ 1. Plant a Bee Garden

1. Read a book where the MC is not tidy.
Don't Stand too close to a Naked Man - ⭐️
"She says I leave messes everywhere." p.152

2. Read a book with a flower pot on the cover.

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher

Belonging The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides by Geoffrey L. Cohen

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message 111: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:15AM) (new)

Jun 21, 2024 08:07AM

CCC - 2024 Deck of Cards

✅ Total: 50/50 - (Not J♥️ or Q♥️)

A ♠️ - MC is a POC
28/6 - The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission To Make Time Travel A Reality, Ronald L. Mallett - the author - ⭐️⭐️
2 ♠️ - Disagreement
29/6 - The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero - He had many rivals - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3 ♠️ - Black cover
25/6 -

The Third Plate Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber

- The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4 ♠️ - Title in black & capitals
25/6 -

GASLIGHTING Overcoming Emotional and Spiritual Abuse by Letting Go of a Bad Relationship The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook by G.S. Hansen

- GASLIGHTING: Overcoming Emotional and Spiritual Abuse by Letting Go of a Bad Relationship The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook - ⭐️
5 ♠️ - CEO
26/6 - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Elon Musk - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
6 ♠️ - Shovel
30/6 - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor - "Armed with a shotgun, shovel & monster arms, we worked all night creating our first marketing concepts." p.181 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7 ♠️ - Published 2017
23/6 - How to be a Study Ninja: Study smarter. Focus better. Achieve more. - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
8 ♠️ - Title starts with S
22/6 - Sovereign: Reclaim Your Freedom, Energy, and Power in a Time of Distraction, Uncertainty, and Chaos - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
9 ♠️ - Title initials in 'Nine of Spades'
12/7 - Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
10 ♠️ - Initials in 'Ten of Spades'
22/6 - Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe, Paul Sen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
J ♠️ - Conflict between nations
22/6 - Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military - ⭐️⭐️
Q ♠️ - Powerful woman
27/6 - We Can All Make It - Sara Davies, the author - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K ♠️ - Powerful man
24/6 - Unlock It: The Master Key to Wealth, Success, and Significance - Dan Lok, the author - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A ♥️ - Character wants a romantic relationship
22/6 - Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts—One Conversation at a Time - ⭐️⭐️
2 ♥️ - Love at first sight
5/7 - You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup - Yoko & Lennon - ⭐️⭐️
3 ♥️ - Love triangle
24/6 - Deep Thoughts from a Hollywood Blonde - romance on '90210' - ⭐️⭐️
4 ♥️ - Nuclear Family
6/7 - The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show - The Winchester family - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
5 ♥️ - Heart shape
16/7 -

The Chaos Machine The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher

- The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
6 ♥️ - Religious figure
9/7 - Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World - Gandhi taught & lived Hinduism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7 ♥️ - FN is 7 letters
26/6 - Famous Nathan: A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog - Nathan - ⭐️⭐️
8 ♥️ - Red cover
30/6 -

The Red Widow The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All by Sarah Horowitz

- The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All - ⭐️⭐️
9 ♥️ - Pet
30/6 -

Monsters on the Couch The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies by Brian A. Sharpless

- Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4 ♦️ - Vacation
25/6 - Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5 ♦️ - Automobile
12/7 -

- The High Cost of Free Parking - ⭐️
6 ♦️ - Travel by boat
23/6 - Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7 ♦️ - Inherit
27/6 - Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment - Antique chair, in a hypothetical question - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
8 ♦️ - Glamorous
30/6 -

- Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World - Bird on the cover - ⭐️⭐️
9 ♦️ - Famous person
23/6 - The Future of Us: The Science of What We'll Eat, Where We'll Live, and Who We'll Be - Elon Musk, SpaceX - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
10 ♦️ - Wealthy but unhappy
25/6 - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny - Resolved - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
J ♦️ - Financial assistance
30/6 - The Ultimate Journey - A nurse gets financial help for her child from a wealthy patient - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Q ♦️ - Jewellery
30/6 -

Might As Well Laugh About It Now by Marie Osmond

- Might As Well Laugh About It Now - ⭐️⭐️
K ♦️ - Man's suit
7/7 -

- Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work - ⭐️⭐️

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message 112: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:15AM) (new)

Jun 21, 2024 10:15PM

GN - Ultimate Game Show Challenge 2024

✅ Part 1: 52 books, 26 weeks

✅ Week 1: The Price is Right
A kitchen appliance on the cover
22/6 -

This Is Your Country on Drugs The Secret History of Getting High in America by Ryan Grim

- This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America - ⭐️⭐️
A kitchen appliance in the title
22/6 - Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 2: Double Dare
Food on the cover
22/6 -

10-Minute Declutter The Stress-Free Habit for Simplifying Your Home by S.J. Scott

- 10-Minute Declutter: The Stress-Free Habit for Simplifying Your Home - Apples - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Double letters in title
22/6 - Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military - ⭐️⭐️

✅Week 3: What America Says
All of the letters of SAYS in the title
27/6 - Solomon's Memory Palace: A Freemason's Guide to the Ancient Art of Memoria Verborum - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Published in 2018
23/6 - Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 4: Wheel of Fortune
Double letter in one of the title words
23/6 - You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought - Afford - ⭐️
Title begins with a letter in SPIN
22/6 - Sovereign: Reclaim Your Freedom, Energy, and Power in a Time of Distraction, Uncertainty, and Chaos - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 5: The Match Game
3-word title
25/6 - The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Set in America
24/6 - Deep Thoughts from a Hollywood Blonde - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 6: Let's Make a Deal
Letters LMAD in the title
25/6 - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Character by the name of Wayne
26/6 - Famous Nathan: A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog - COO of business - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 7: Concentration
Word CONCENTRATION in the text
23/6 - The Future of Us: The Science of What We'll Eat, Where We'll Live, and Who We'll Be - "While the concentration of CO2 coming out of a stack" p.150 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Matching items on the cover
22/6 -

- Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts—One Conversation at a Time - 2 of same flower - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 8: Family Feud
Tagged family
29/6 - Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Starts with a letter in the word FEUD
24/6 - Unlock It: The Master Key to Wealth, Success, and Significance - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 9: Legends of the Hidden Temple
A parrot on the cover
30/6 -

- Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️
Tagged 'Mythology'
6/7 - The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 10: Password
Title starts with a letter in PASSWORD
25/6 - Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Someone has a secret
26/6 - Prepping: An Essential Survival Guide for DIY Preppers Who Want to Be Self-Reliant When SHTF, Including Tips for Living Off the Grid, Homesteading, and Stockpiling Properly - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 11: Press Your Luck
Title begins with a letter in LUCK
25/6 - Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Evil character
24/6 - X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor: Race and Gender in the Comic Books - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 12: The $25,000 Pyramid
Number in the title
26/6 - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Triangular shape on the cover
26/6 -

The Pocket Butler A Compact Guide to Modern Manners, Business Etiquette and Everyday Entertaining by Charles MacPherson

- The Pocket Butler: A Compact Guide to Modern Manners, Business Etiquette and Everyday Entertaining - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 13: The Floor
Author's first & last initials found in ROB LOWE
26/6 - Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Whole - ⭐️⭐️
Word THE in the title
24/6 - Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 14: Jeopardy
Punctuation in the title
2/7 - Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe - ⭐️⭐️
Published in 2021
3/7 - Why you should give a f*ck about farming: Because you eat - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 15: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
"?" in the title
28/6 - Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
25/6 - GASLIGHTING: Overcoming Emotional and Spiritual Abuse by Letting Go of a Bad Relationship The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook - 215 pages - ⭐️

✅ Week 16: The Traitors
A murder
30/6 - The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All - ⭐️⭐️
BETRAYAL in the text
29/6 - Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography - "a betrayal by Humperdinck of the one thing we genuinely had in common" p.297 - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 17: Card Sharks
Someone has to make a choice in order to move forward
30/6 - Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author's' first & last initials in NORMA BROWN
28/6 - The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission To Make Time Travel A Reality, Ronald L. Mallett - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 18: The Dating Game
Title begins with a letter in DATE
26/6 - Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3 in the page count
23/6 - How to be a Study Ninja: Study smarter. Focus better. Achieve more. - 376 pages - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 19: Deal or No Deal
2 & 6 in the publication date
27/6 - When Breath Becomes Air - 2016 - ⭐️⭐️
4 in the page count
29/6 - The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy - 314 pages - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 20: Snake Oil
You rated 3 stars or less
30/6 - Might As Well Laugh About It Now - ⭐️⭐️
Letters of OIL in the title
30/6 - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 21: Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Millionaire/billionaire MC
30/6 - The Ultimate Journey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Set in the UK
27/6 - We Can All Make It - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 22: America's Got Talent
A character who "got talent"
2/7 - Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde - ⭐️⭐️
Published in 2006
29/6 - The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 23: Squid Game: The Challenge
Green cover
27/6 -

Heuristics and Biases The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment by Thomas Gilovich

- Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A circle on the cover
30/6 -

- Zen Keys - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 24: Tic Tac Dough
Real-life celebrity is mentioned
5/7 - You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup - ⭐️⭐️
Read a book where all of the letters of GAME are in the author's name
6/7 - Restaurant Babylon, Imogen Edwards-Jones - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 25
Alliteration for 2 words in title
30/6 - Happiness Hacks: 300+ Simple Ways to Get―and Stay―Happy - ⭐️⭐️
Read a book that has both an X & O in the title
7/7 - Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 26
Author's first initial is found in HARRY & the last initial is found in SALTER
2/7 - The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country, Helen Russell - ⭐️⭐️
Read a book with at least three 4-letter words in the title
3/7 - What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum - What, Mean, When - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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message 113: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:15AM) (new)

Jun 21, 2024 11:16PM

GN - Ultimate Game Show Challenge 2024

✅ Part 2: 52 books, 26 weeks

✅ Week 27
Read a book with mostly yellow cover
5/7 -

Wake Up! How to Get Out of Your Mind, Stop Living on Autopilot, and Start Choosing Your Best Life by Claudia Velandia

- Wake Up!: How to Get Out of Your Mind, Stop Living on Autopilot, and Start Choosing Your Best Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book set in the US
6/7 - Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 28
Read a book with the number 7 in the rating
8/7 - Word Origins - 27 ratings, (before I rated it) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book with a celebrity MC
9/7 - Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World - Jack Kerouac - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 29
Read a book with three verbs in the title.
22/7 - Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book with a writing utensil on the cover
23/7 -

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

- Thinking, Fast and Slow - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 30: Spy Games
Read a book with money on the cover
22/7 -

Tiny Business, Big Money Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness by Elaine Pofeldt

- Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness - ⭐️⭐️
Read a book 1 in any series
25/7 - Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy - 3 volumes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 31:
Read a book with all the letters of CHAIN in the title
31/7 - Socratic Questioning for Therapists and Counselors: Learn How to Think and Intervene Like a Cognitive Behavior Therapist - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book with INSTANT in the text
31/7 - Doctor Who: The Witchfinders - "they could snap her bones in an instant and would be happy to do so" p.61 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 32: Remote Control
Read a book where the title begins with a letter in WAGER
5/8 - Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book that has been turned into a movie
6/8 - Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 33: The Gong Show
Read a book where someone was judged by their family, peers, co-workers, etc.
16/8 - You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery - "‘When you’re here, you’re family,’ because I haven’t felt this judged since Thanksgiving
1997.” p.228 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book with two Gs in the title.
20/8 - Breakthrough Rapid Reading - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 34: Blank Slate
Read a book with a 2-word title.
20/8 - Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book where the author's initials are found in HEATH STREET MEDIA.
22/8 - Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics, Edward T. Haslam - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 35: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
28/8 - The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul - "The people in Europe are smarter than the people in America when it comes to records" p.213 - ⭐️⭐️
Read a book with a red cover
1/9 -

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 36: Dancing with the Stars
Read a book with the word DANCE anywhere in the text.
3/9 - Life Lessons From Nietzsche - "In song and dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community" p.30 - ⭐️⭐️
Read a book with a star on the cover.
3/9 -

Laika's Window The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog by Kurt Caswell

- ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 37: Nickelodeon Guts
Read a book that starts with a letter in GUTS
11/9 - Two Awesome Hours: Science-Based Strategies to Harness Your Best Time and Get Your Most Important Work Done - ⭐️⭐️
Read a book tagged sports
18/9 - Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 38: Win Ben Stein's Money
Read a book with both author initials in BEN STEIN
17/9 - Dancing With Myself, Billy Idol - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book with all the letters of DUNCE in the title
19/9 - The Phoenix Encounter Method: Lead Like Your Business Is on Fire! - ⭐️

✅ Week 39: Idiotest
Read a book with 2 people on the cover
26/9 -

8 Lessons in Military Leadership For Entrepreneurs by Robert T. Kiyosaki

- 8 Lessons in Military Leadership: For Entrepreneurs - ⭐️⭐️
Read a book with the title starting with a letter in IDIOTEST
27/9 - The Overcomers: Stories and Lessons from Entrepreneurs of a Resilient Nation - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 40: The Joker's Wild
Read a book with an author whose first & last initials are the same
30/9 - Love & Autism, Kay Kerr - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read a book published in 2019.
1/10 - The Science of The Big Bang Theory: What America's Favorite Sitcom Can Teach You about Physics, Flags, and the Idiosyncrasies of Scientists - First published May 7, 2019 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 41: The Newlywed Game
Text - 'question
7/10 - Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life, Viktor E. Frankl - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The question of how freedom of spirit and of action can prevail even under extreme conditions." p.12
Title - the letters of WED
12/10 - Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth, Glenn Dixon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 42: Supermarket Sweep
Title - letters of ABC
15/10 - Brain Changer: How Harnessing Your Brain's Power to Adapt Can Change Your Life, David DiSalvo - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Text - 'grocery'
15/10 - End the Insomnia Struggle: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Get to Sleep and Stay Asleep, Colleen Ehrnstrom - ⭐️⭐️
"get at the grocery store tomorrow" p.174

✅ Week 43: Dancing with the Stars
Title - 'with'
21/10 - It Starts with One: The Legend and Legacy of Linkin Park, Jason Lipshutz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cover - 2 people
28/10 - The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Jeffrey Meyers - ⭐️

✅ Week 44: Shop 'til You Drop
Plot - shopping
29/10 - When the Screaming Stops: The Dark History of the Bay City Rollers, Simon Spence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The band went shopping for new clothes" p.100
Title - all the letters of SHOPPER
7/11 - The Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie Jaku - ⭐️⭐️
tHe haPPieSt man On EaRth

✅ Week 45: Lingo
Cover - something red
7/11 - The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology) 2 Vol. Set, Anthony S. Mercatante - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology) 2 Vol. Set by Anthony S. Mercatante

Title - starts with a letter in LINGO
7/11 - Office, Sheila Liming - ⭐️⭐️
Title starts with O

✅ Week 46: Dream House
Text - 'win'
11/11 - Connie: A Memoir, Connie Chung - ⭐️⭐️
"Which side would win?" p.23
Title - starts with a letter in DREAM
12/11 - Electrical Diseases of the Heart: Genetics, Mechanisms, Treatment, Prevention - ⭐️
E

✅ Week 47: Blockbusters
Title - 1 word
21/11 - Life, Keith Richards - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cover - green, red, & white
21/11 - Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Long Walk to Freedom The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

✅ Week 48: We are Family
Plot - a character sings
27/11 - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy - ⭐️⭐️
"Patti sings too loud" p.961
Plot - MC has to make an important guess
27/11 - Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys, Joe Coulombe - ⭐️⭐️
"I was prudent enough to guess, however, that it would expose me to blackmail should I ever try to switch brands." p.24

✅ Week 49: Truth or Consequences
Text - truth
2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
"they’re trying to sugarcoat the truth" p.15
Published - between 1940 to 1978
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
1962

✅ Week 50: Squid Games
Pages - 501+
12/12 - Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire, Stacy A. Cordery - ⭐️⭐️
512 pages
Cover - a sea creature
13/12 -

Explaining Life Through Evolution by Prosanta Chakrabarty

, Prosanta Chakrabarty - ⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 51: The Mole
Plot - ceremony
17/12 - Lonely Planet Australia, Lonely Planet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the touching Last Post ceremony at the Australian War Memorial" p.488
Cover - money
19/12 -

Welcome to Pawnee Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation by Jim O’Heir

, Jim O’Heir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Week 52: People Puzzler
MC - female
24/12 - Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson, Paul French - ⭐️⭐️
Wallis Simpson
Text - 'magazine'
24/12 - Sugar: A Bittersweet History, Elizabeth Abbott - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the Third Reich’s confidential weekly instructions to magazine editors" p.435

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✅ GN - R3 Game Night Bingo - Richard's Card

1. Weekly call: 21
Task: Any year ending in 1
Book: The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
How it fits: Published 2011
Date read/rating: July 2nd, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Weekly call: 3
Task: Series #3
Book: Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes
How it Fits: 3rd edition
Date read/rating: July 7th, ⭐️⭐️

3. Weekly call: 20
Task: Published any year ending in 2
Book: The History of Ukraine and Russia: The Tangled Events That Led to Crisis
How it Fits: Published 2022
Date read & rating: July 12th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Weekly call: 7
Task: Published in July of any year
Book: Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
How it Fits: Published July 16th, 2015
Date read & rating: July 23rd, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Weekly call: 13
Task: Published any year ending in 3
Book: Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life
How it Fits: Published 2013
Date read & rating: July 25th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Weekly call: 19
Task: Published any year ending in 9
Book: Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures
How it Fits: Published 2019
Date read & rating: July 24th, ⭐️⭐️

7. Weekly call: 23
Task: Title has only 2 or 3 words in the title (articles count)
Book: Anti-Inflammatory Diet: Your Ultimate Guide To Healing Inflammation, Alleviating Pain and Restoring Physical Health With 50 Delicious Anti-Inflammatory Recipes
Date read & rating: July 24th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Weekly call: 6
Task: Published in June any year
Book: The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse
How it Fits: Published in June
Date read & rating: Aug 3rd, ⭐️⭐️

9. Weekly call: 8
Task: Published in August any year
Book: 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary: The 500 Words You Need to Know to Transform Your Vocabulary.and Your Life
How it Fits: Published in August
Date read & rating: Aug 12th, ⭐️⭐️

10. Weekly call: 15
Task: Published any year ending in 5
Book: Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
How it Fits: Published in 2015
Date read & rating: Aug 3rd, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

11. Weekly call: 11
Task: Published in November
Book: Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again
How it Fits: Published in November
Date read & rating: Aug 12th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

12. Weekly call: 4
Task: Published in April
Book: 2,001 Most Useful German Words (Dover Language Guides German)
How it Fits: Published in April
Date read & rating: Aug 12th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

BINGO 1

13. Weekly call: 17
Task: Published any year ending in 7
Book: Believe and Receive: Use the 40 Laws of Nature to Attain Your Deepest Desires
Author: Melissa Alvarez
How it Fits: Published December 8, 2017
Date read & rating: Aug 19th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

14. Weekly call: 12
Task: Published in December any year
Book: Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing
Author: Ailsa Frank
How it Fits: Published December 19, 2014
Date read & rating: Aug 20th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

15. Weekly call: 18
Task: Published any year ending in 8
Book: Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up, A
Author: Chris Head
How it Fits: Published July 12, 2018
Date read & rating: Aug 21st, ⭐️⭐️

BINGO 2

16. Weekly call: 1
Book: Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
How it Fits: First published January 27, 2015
Date Read: Aug 25th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

17. Weekly call: 10
Book: Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Author: Ted Gioia
How it Fits: First published October 17, 2008
Date Read: Sep 2nd, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

18. Weekly call: 24
Task: Letter of FOUR in Title
Book: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Author: Ross King
Date Read: Sep 4th, ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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CCC - July 2024 Scavenger Challenge: Build a Scarecrow

✅ Total: 14/14

STEP 1: BUILD THE FRAME
Something made of wood shown prominently on the cover
2/7 -

The Year of Living Danishly Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell

- The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country - ⭐️⭐️
MC's first name begins with a letter in FRAME
7/7 - Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll - Fats - ⭐️⭐️

STEP 2: SECURE SHIRT TO FRAME, THEN STUFF
A character whose behaviour could be described as stiff
2/7 - Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe - ⭐️⭐️
A shirt shown prominently on the cover
7/7 -

- Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work - ⭐️⭐️

STEP 3: TIE OFF PANT LEGS, STUFF, THEN ATTACH TO FRAME
Set in a location beginning with a letter in TWINE
3/7 - A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal - Earth - ⭐️⭐️
A character who wears suspenders
7/7 - Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures - "men in suspenders" p.73 - ⭐️⭐️

STEP 4: ADD FOOTWEAR
Water shown prominently on the cover
5/7 -

Tranquility by Tuesday 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters by Laura Vanderkam

- Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The letters SHOES in the title
2/7 - The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

STEP 5: STUFF A PILLOWCASE FOR THE HEAD
A character who has a big head (is very full of him/herself)
6/7 - Restaurant Babylon - obstinate head chef - ⭐️⭐️
Double consonants in the author's name
1/7 - Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs, Johann Hari - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

STEP 6: SECURE PILLOWCASE TO FRAME, DECORATE WITH A FACE
A windy day occurs
6/7 - The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"one day the South Wind blew in and uprooted the tree" p.124
A hat shown prominently on the cover
7/7 -

Thelonious Monk The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D.G. Kelley

- Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original - ⭐️⭐️

STEP 7: POSITION SCARECROW IN YOUR GARDEN
The name of a flower in the author's name
9/7 - Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, Heather Clark - ⭐️⭐️
Title words all begin with a letter in SCARECROW
8/7 - Word Origins - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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HOB - Bookopoly

✅ July - September

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✅ HOB - HOB Olympic Games: Tuvalu

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TCF - BOOK It to the Finish Line! - July

✅ Total: 14/14 (43 inches 🙃)

To go 2 inches, read a book:
- that is 140+ pages
1/7 - The Little Blue Reasoning Book: 50 Powerful Principles for Clear and Effective Thinking - 325 pages - ⭐️⭐️
- that starts with the letter 'S'
2/7 - The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- that is set in England
2/7 - Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - ⭐️⭐️
- where a garden is important
13/7 - Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- published in 2013
5/7 - Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

To go 3 inches: read a book:
- with water on the cover
2/7 -

- The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country - ⭐️⭐️
- that is a standalone
3/7 - Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- set in a very small town
8/7 - Tekebash and Saba: Recipes from the Horn of Africa - Tigray, Ethiopia - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- where someone receives 'snail mail'
5/7 - You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup - ⭐️⭐️
"Harrison’s letter to McCartney was sealed in an envelope labelled
‘From Us, To You’" p.123
- written by an author whose name starts with a 'S'
12/7 - Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace, Scott Thorson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

To go 4 inches, read a book:
- with a French character in it
2/7 - Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe - ⭐️⭐️
- where someone eats gourmet food
3/7 - Why you should give a f*ck about farming: Because you eat - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- written by a British author
1/7 - Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

To go 6 inches, read a book:
- with some sort of shell on the cover
15/7 -

- Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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TLC - July Scattergories: M

✅ Total: 13/13

1. Book Title
1/7 - Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Author FN
6/7 - Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture, Mark Bergen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Author LN
1/7 - Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, Gabor Maté - ⭐️⭐️

4. Main Character
9/7 - A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - Madge - ⭐️⭐️

5. Secondary Character
6/7 - The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"MEG: An exorcism? Are you serious?" p.116

6. Place
4/7 - Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"literally half the Moon is forever hidden from Earth’s view." p.10

7. Item on cover
7/7 -

Blue Monday Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll by Rick Coleman

- Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll - Microphone - ⭐️⭐️

8. Something that scares you
2/7 - Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe - ⭐️⭐️
"You don’t bury the feelings of people whose relatives lie in mass graves" p.60

9. Something you can cook in
6/7 - Restaurant Babylon - ⭐️⭐️
"It is less usual, although obviously not unheard of, in a Michelin-starred kitchen." p.20

10. A place you can go to
5/7 - You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup - ⭐️⭐️
"but one beneficiary was a cancer hospital in Manchester." p.465

11. Ends with -ER
6/7 - If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails: And Other Lessons I Learned from My Mom - ⭐️⭐️
"It seemed my mother could do a hundred things at once, all the while keeping at least one of her blue eyes on her ten children." p.3

12. Something you consume
6/7 - Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Politicians had always chased media fads to reach voters and signal hipness." p.110

13. Something you can hear
2/7 - The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement - Music - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"when French music was pumped into a store, sales of French wines skyrocketed" p.167

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TLC - June 2024 Scattergories: H

Sadistic personal bonus challenge - do it in 4 days 😆

✅ Total: 13/13

1. Book title
27/6 - Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Author FN
28/6 - Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners, Henry Alford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Author LN
30/6 - The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All, Sarah Horowitz - ⭐️⭐️

4. Main character
29/6 - The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero - Harry Houdini - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Secondary character
29/6 - Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography - Johnny Harris - ⭐️⭐️

6. Place
30/6 - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor - Hollywood - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. Item on cover
30/6 -

- Zen Keys - Hand - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Word with double letters
30/6 - Happiness Hacks: 300+ Simple Ways to Get―and Stay―Happy - Happiness - ⭐️⭐️

9. Something on your head
29/6 -

Great Falls, MT Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again by Reggie Watts

- Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again - Hair - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. Items on a lunch menu
30/6 - Might As Well Laugh About It Now - "was supposed to be converted into a small hamburger grill as a project" p.158 - ⭐️⭐️

11. Something that catches your attention
29/6 - The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy - Humorous biography - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

12. Something you do with your hand
30/6 - Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️
"they can hold what they eat" p.123

13. A place where you can relax
27/6 - We Can All Make It - Home - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"He was the one explaining basic business terms to me at home over the breakfast cereal." p.17

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CCC - Running

✅ Total: 30/30

SECTION 1.
- Fast to read.
30/6 - The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All - ⭐️⭐️
- More than 300 pages.
29/6 - Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography - 503 pages - ⭐️⭐️

SECTION 2.
- Author’s LN is in OXYGEN.
30/6 - Might As Well Laugh About It Now, Marie Osmond - ⭐️⭐️
- Genre you really enjoy.
30/6 - Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️

SECTION 3.
- Read book #1 of a series.
10/7 - Learning Spanish; How to Understand and Speak a New Language - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Read book #2 of a series.
13/7 - Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope - ⭐️⭐️
- 2 of the numbers: 1, 2, 3 in page total.
28/6 - Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners - 237 pages - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

SECTION 4.
- A speaking character is a doctor.
1/7 - Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder - ⭐️⭐️
- A character is described as large.
29/6 - Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- A character is over 40 years old.
5/7 - Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

SECTION 5.
- Water on the cover.
2/7 - Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe - ⭐️⭐️
- Comfortable to read.
29/6 - The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- More than 3.5 of average rating.
28/6 - The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission To Make Time Travel A Reality - ⭐️⭐️
- Cardinal number in title.
15/7 - Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
- Short story collection or anthology
15/7 - Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize With a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch - Collection of essays from different authors - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

SECTION 6.
- Patch of flat, grassy area on cover.
12/7 -

Reading the OED One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea

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CCC - How Does Your Garden Grow?

✅ Total: 75/75

Part 1: Planning

Formal Garden
1. Geometric cover image
19/7 -

The Loop How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back by Jacob Ward

- ⭐️⭐️
2. Even-numbered page count
29/6 - The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero - 604 pages - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. First published in an even-numbered month
29/6 - Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography - October - ⭐️⭐️
4. First published in an even-numbered year
28/6 - The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission To Make Time Travel A Reality - 2006 - ⭐️⭐️
5. MC you think of as very rule-oriented
29/6 - The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Plants

6. Flowers on cover
30/6 -

- Zen Keys - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. Character named after a flower
2/7 - The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country - Daisy - ⭐️⭐️
8. Green cover
8/7 -

Unfuck Your Year A Weekly Unplanner and Self-Care Activity Book to Manage Your Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Triggers, and Freak-Outs (5-Minute Therapy) by Faith G. Harper

- ⭐️⭐️
9. Green plants on cover
13/7 -

Defending Your Castle Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes by William Gurstelle

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10. MC who has an outdoor job
3/7 - Why you should give a f*ck about farming: Because you eat - Farming - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
11. Bird on cover
20/7 -

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12. Moth on cover
24/7 -

Hacking the Code of Life How gene editing will rewrite our futures (Hot Science) by Nessa Carey

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13. Butterfly on cover
4/7 - You Are More Than You Think You Are: Practical Enlightenment for Everyday Life - ⭐️⭐️
14. Lawn on cover
2/7 -

Africa's World War Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier

- Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe - ⭐️⭐️
15. Someone watches football
13/7 - Don't Stand too close to a Naked Man - ⭐️
16. Set at a restaurant
6/7 - Restaurant Babylon - ⭐️⭐️
17. Vegetables on cover
11/7 -

Always Delicious Over 175 Satisfying Recipes to Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Keep the Weight Off Permanently by David Ludwig

Dopamine Nation Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke

- ⭐️⭐️⭐️
42. Autumn: Red, Green, Gold
6/7 -

Brown Faces, White Spaces Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration by LaTasha Morrison

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43. Cool: Blue, Green, White
26/7 -

Tiny Habits The Small Changes That Change Everything by B.J. Fogg

- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
44. Romantic Roses: Red, Pink, White
5/7 -

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45. Springtime Pastels: Peach, Pink, Lavender
19/7 -

The Extended Mind The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul

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46. Dramatic Blues: Blue, Purple, Violet
15/7 -

Livewired The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman

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47. Primaries: Blue, Red, Yellow
20/7 -

The 12-Hour Walk Invest One Day, Conquer Your Mind, and Unlock Your Best Life by Colin O'Brady

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48. Jewel Tones: Red, Green, Purple
4/7 -

Illogical Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits by Emmanuel Acho

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49. Elegant: White, Cream, Gold
13/7 -

The Body Book The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz by Cameron Díaz

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50. Wild: Fuchsia, Orange, Purple
7/7 -

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message 128: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:11AM) (new)

Jun 27, 2024 10:02AM

CCC - How Does Your Garden Grow?

✅ Part 2: Planting

51. Set in a warm climate
3/8 - The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse - ⭐️⭐️
52. Brown cover
2/8 -

The Polymath Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility by Waqas Ahmed

- The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
53. Character you think is full of it
31/7 - Doctor Who: The Witchfinders - King James - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
54. Set in a bookstore or library
13/8 - BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google - ⭐️⭐️
55. Hands visible on cover
13/8 -

A Captain's Duty Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips

- A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea - ⭐️⭐️
56. Hand-held tool on cover
12/8 -

Forgiving What You Can't Forget Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst

- Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again - Paint-roller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
57. Tall character
1/8 - The Ultimate Legacy: A Novel - Gus - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
58. MC is an only child
2/8 - Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity - ⭐️⭐️
59. Untrustworthy character
3/8 - Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain - Courtney Love is manipulative & lies a lot - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
60. Acidic personality
1/8 - How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
61. Striking cover
11/8 -

Red Roulette An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum

- Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China - ⭐️⭐️
62. Character who needs a lot of attention
27/7 - Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
63. An item you think is more decorative than useful on cover
30/7 -

You Are Your Choices 50 Ways to Live the Good Life by Alexandra Stoddard

- You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life - ⭐️⭐️
64. Sunny outdoor scene on cover
31/7 -

Socratic Questioning for Therapists and Counselors Learn How to Think and Intervene Like a Cognitive Behavior Therapist by Scott H. Waltman

- Socratic Questioning for Therapists and Counselors: Learn How to Think and Intervene Like a Cognitive Behavior Therapist - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
65. Dog on cover
3/8 -

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live by Daniel Klein

- Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Part 3: Maintaining

66. Water on cover
21/8 -

How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive! by James Altucher

- How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive! - ⭐️⭐️
67. Character you think is a pest
13/8 - A Woman Like Me - "A vicious pimp was precariously holding on to my right foot as he dangled me from the top of a twenty-story apartment building at Amsterdam and Seventy-eighth Street." p.8 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
68. Beautiful cover
18/8 -

The Invisible Universe Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye by Matthew Bothwell

- The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
69. Character dances
16/8 - You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery - "To pass the time, I pretended to pole dance on the train poles, which is a total rookie move." p.20 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
70. Someone dies
14/8 - An Illustrated Guide to Samurai History and Culture: From the Age of Musashi to Contemporary Pop Culture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
71. Something green on cover
14/8 -

Solomon's Builders Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. by Christopher L. Hodapp

- Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
72. Hat on cover
15/8 -

Napoleon Soldier of Destiny by Michael Broers

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73. Green lawn on cover
17/8 -

Unleashing Creativity by Masonwabe Nyanga

- Unleashing Creativity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
74. Someone pauses to enjoy something
16/8 - 100 IS THE NEW 30: HOW PLAYING THE SYMPHONY OF LONGEVITY WILL ENABLE US TO LIVE YOUNG FOR A LIFETIME - "I personally enjoy reading a paragraph or a few pages of Eckhart Tolle’s, The Power of Now" p.122 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
75. Set in cold climate
14/8 - A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins - ⭐️⭐️

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message 129: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:11AM) (new)

Jun 28, 2024 01:47PM

✅ C&F - Fairy Tales: Richard's Journey

1. Current Fairy Tale : Cinderella
Book & Author : The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country, Helen Russell
Date Read : July 2nd
Task : Cinderella found in text
How it Fits : "a Cinderella-style horse and carriage" p.120
Next Fairy Tale : Snow White

2. Current Fairy Tale: Snow White
Book & Author: Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration, LaTasha Morrison
Date Read: July 6th
Task: Read a book with Snow or White intact in the title
How it Fits: White is in title
Next Fairy Tale: Sleeping Beauty

3. Current Fairy Tale: Sleeping Beauty
Book & Author: Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll, Rick Coleman
Date Read: July 7th
Task: Read a book spanned over 100 years
How it Fits: Talks about the days of New Orleans in 1719, through to the 1950s.
Next Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood

4. Current Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood
Book & Author: Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude: How to Find, Build and Keep a Yes! Attitude for a Lifetime of Success, Jeffrey Gitomer
Date Read: July 8th
Task: Read a book with a colour in the title
How it Fits: Gold is a colour
Next Fairy Tale: Hansel & Gretel

5. Current Fairy Tale: Hansel & Gretel
Book & Author: Ted Bundy: America’s Most Evil Serial Killer, Al Cimino
Date Read: July 13th
Task: Read a book with a name in the title
How it Fits: Ted Bundy is a name
Next Fairy Tale: Rapunzel

6. Current Fairy Tale: Rapunzel
Book & Author: The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz, Cameron Díaz
Date Read: July 13th
Task: Read a book with a Z in MC's name.
How it Fits: Z in Diaz
Next Fairy Tale: The Little Mermaid

7. Current Fairy Tale: The Little Mermaid
Book & Author: Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes, William Gurstelle
Date Read: July 13th
Task: Read a book with water on the cover.
How it Fits: Moat on cover
Next Fairy Tale: Beauty & the Beast

8. Current Fairy Tale: Beauty & the Beast
Book & Author: The Real J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle-Earth, Jesse Xander
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book with two words starting with the same letter in the title
How it Fits: The & Tolkien
Next Fairy Tale: The Frog Prince

9. Current Fairy Tale: The Frog Prince
Book: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Author: Brian Tracy
Date Read: July 29th
Task: Read a book with a frog or a toad on the cover
How it Fits:

Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

Next Fairy Tale: The Twelve Dancing Princesses

10. Current Fairy Tale: The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Book: 41 Minutes to Be Happy: The 7 PIllars of Happiness
Author: Géraud Guillet
Date Read: Aug 3rd
Task: Read a book with a number in the title.
How it Fits: 41 in title
Next Fairy Tale: Rumpelstiltskin

11. Current Fairy Tale: Rumpelstiltskin
Book: Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth (Volume 6)
Author: Travis Langley
Date Read: Aug 6th
Task: Read a book with gold on the cover.
How it Fits:

Wonder Woman Psychology Lassoing the Truth (Volume 6) (Popular Culture Psychology) by Travis Langley

Next Fairy Tale: Jack & the Beanstalk

12. Current Fairy Tale: Jack & the Beanstalk
Book: Rewire Your Brain : Rid Your Mind Of Negative Thoughts and Limiting Beliefs, Stop Overthinking And Create Healthy Habits
Author: Jack Thomas
Date Read: Aug 18th
Task: Read a book with an author named Jack.
Next Fairy Tale: The Ugly Duckling

12. Current Fairy Tale: The Ugly Duckling
Book: User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
Author: Cliff Kuang
Date Read: Aug 21st
Task: Read a book with title starting with U.
Next Fairy Tale: The Princess & the Pea

12. Current Fairy Tale: The Princess & the Pea
Book: Creating Effective Spaces: Declutter, Organize and Maintain Your Space
Author: Natasha Swingler
Date Read: Aug 23rd
Task: Read a book with a bed on the cover.
How it Fits:

Creating Effective Spaces Declutter, Organize and Maintain Your Space by Natasha Swingler

Next Fairy Tale: The Pied Piper of Hamelin

13. Current Fairy Tale: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Book: The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul
Author: Nelson George
Date Read: Aug 28th
Task: Read a book with a musician MC.
Next Fairy Tale: Bluebeard

14. Current Fairy Tale: Bluebeard
Book: The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage As Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul
Author: Lissa Rankin
Date Read: Aug 31st
Task: Read a book with a wedding in it.
How it Fits: "Although she was thrilled about getting married, her wedding generated great anxiety" p.61
Next Fairy Tale: The Snow Queen

15. Current Fairy Tale: The Snow Queen
Book: Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force
Author: Dan Schilling
Date Read: Sep 3rd
Task: Read a book with snow on the cover.
How it Fits:

Alone at Dawn Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force by Dan Schilling

Next Fairy Tale: The Elves & the Shoemaker

16. Current Fairy Tale: The Elves & the Shoemaker
Book: Buy Now, Pay Later: The Extraordinary Story of Afterpay
Author: Jonathan Shapiro
Date Read: Sep 8th
Task: Cover - shoes
How it Fits:

Buy Now, Pay Later The Extraordinary Story of Afterpay by Jonathan Shapiro

Next Fairy Tale: The Golden Goose

19. Current Fairy Tale: The Golden Goose
Book: A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern
Author: Mary Brooks Picken
Date Read: Sep 10th
Task: Author - double 'O'
How it Fits: Brooks

20. Current Fairy Tale: The Emperor's New Clothes
Book: Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Author: Frank Trentmann
Date Read: Sep 11th
Task: Title - starts with 'E'

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message 130: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:11AM) (new)

Jun 28, 2024 02:01PM

C&F - Sitcoms Through The Decades: Richard's Sitcoms

✅ 1-37

1. Current sitcom: Television
Book: Enough
Author: Jana Pittman
Date read: July 3rd
How it fits: Title starts with E

2. Current sitcom: The Radio
Book: Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back
Author: George Takei
Date Read: July 5th
How it Fits: All the letters of RADIO in the title

3. Current sitcom: The Family Genius
Book: Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD
Author: Tamara Rosier
Date Read: July 7th
Task: Read a book with 200 pages or less
How it Fits: 198 pages

4. Current sitcom: The Bickersons
Book: Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace
Author: Scott Thorson
Date Read: July 12th
Task: Read a book with an author who has SON in their first or last name
How it Fits: thorSON

5. Current sitcom: That Wonderful Guy
Book: Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine
Author: Robert A. Partridge
Date Read: July 12th
Task: Read a book that contains the word actor
How it Fits: "Actors are volunteer players who simulate specific roles during the exercise." p.228

6. Current sitcom: The Life of Riley
Book: Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
Author: Mark Manson
Date read: July 13th
Task: Read a book that is the second book in a series
How it fits: "Mark Manson Collection #2"

7. Current sitcom: The Beginning of the Television Era
Book: Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes
Author: William Gurstelle
Date Read: July 13th
Task: Read a book with two numbers from 1948 in the page count
How it Fits: 178 pages

8. Current sitcom: The Goldbergs
Book: Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
Author: Philip M. Rosenzweig
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book with the numbers from 1030 in the publishing date
How it Fits: 01/09/2013 is the publishing date

9. Current Sitcom: The Morey Amsterdam Show
Book: Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude
Author: Amy Bloom
Date Read: July 19th
Task: Read a book set in New York City
How it Fits: "I arrange to meet Don Laub again in New York City, at the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Symposium." p.27

10. Current Sitcom: Mary Kay & Johnny
Book: The 12-Hour Walk: Invest One Day, Conquer Your Mind, and Unlock Your Best Life
Author: Colin O'Brady
Date Read: July 20th
Task: Read a book with an MC who is married.
How it Fits: "My wife, Jenna, and I were following the stay-at-home mandate with our dog" p.23

11. Current Sitcom: Black & White Television
Book: The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
Author: Azeem Azhar
Date Read: July 24th
Task: Read a book with only black & white on the cover
How it Fits:

The Exponential Age How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society by Azeem Azhar

12. Current Sitcom: Dennis the Menace
Book: Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
Author: Nicholas Kardaras
Date Read: July 25th
Task: Read a book with an MPG Children

13. Current Sitcom: Make Room for Daddy / The Danny Thomas Show
Book: Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
Author: James Riordan
Date Read: July 27th
Task: Read a book where a character works in the music industry
How it Fits: Jim Morrison was a great musician

14. Current Sitcom: Father Knows Best
Book: Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
Author: Max Wallace
Date Read: Aug 3rd
Task: Read a book where the MC is a father
How it Fits: He has a daughter, Frances Bean

15. Current Sitcom: The Donna Reed Show
Book: KISS: Behind the Mask - Official Authorized Biography
Author: David Leaf
Date Read: Aug 10th
Task: Read a book with 4 people on the cover
How it Fits:

KISS Behind the Mask - Official Authorized Biography by David Leaf

16. Current Sitcom: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
Book: Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Author: David Haward Bain
Date Read: Aug 10th
Task: Read a book with at least 435 pages.
How it Fits: 848 pages

17. Current Sitcom: The Real McCoys
Book: Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
Author: Randy L. Schmidt
Date Read: Aug 11th
Task: Read a book set in California.
How it Fits: "In rehearsal and in concert, Long Beach, California, December 1970." p.108

18. Current Sitcom: Leave it to Beaver
Book: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Author: Roger Lowenstein
Date Read: Aug 11th
Task: Read a book where the MC goes by a nickname.
How it Fits: "Her nick-name was "Peroxide." Danly was "Duck," but Warren was simply "Buffett."" p.25

19. Current Sitcom: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Book: 2,001 Most Useful German Words (Dover Language Guides German)
Author: Joseph W. Moser
Date Read: Aug 12th
Task: Read a book where the author has an initial in their name
How it Fits: Author has a middle initial of W

20. Current Sitcom: The Abbott & Costello Show
Book: Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again
Author: Lysa TerKeurst
Date Read: Aug 12th
Task: Read a book with a page count beginning with 2
How it Fits: 288 Pages

21. Current Sitcom: The Anchorman
Book: Beyond Beautiful: A Practical Guide to Being Happy, Confident, and You in a Looks-Obsessed World
Author: Anuschka Rees
Date Read: Aug 12th
Task: Read a book where the MC’s name begins with a letter in ANCHORMAN
How it Fits: The author is the MC. FN is Anushka.

22. Current Sitcom: The Phil Silvers Show
Book: Empowered: Live Your Life with Passion and Purpose
Author: Vee Kativhu
Date Read: Aug 13th
Task: Read a book where a character makes money (other than a regular job).
How it Fits: Made money on YouTube

23. Current Sitcom: I Love Lucy
Book: A Woman Like Me
Author: Bettye LaVette
Date Read: Aug 13th
Task: Read a book where a character is to be a singer.
How it Fits: Bettye is a great singer

24. Current Sitcom: The Jack Benny Program
Book: Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice
Author: Natalie Goldberg
Date Read: Aug 20th
Task: Read a book with a character who is an author.
How it Fits: "I was supposed to be in conversation with Jenn Shapland, the author of 'My Autobiography of Carson McCullers', at a downtown bookstore" p.12

25. Current Sitcom: Amos 'n' Andy
Book: His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Author: Robert Samuels
Date Read: Aug 22nd
Task: Read a book with a black MC.

26. Current Sitcom: The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show
Book: Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
Author: Susan Hill
Date Read: Aug 26th
Task: Read a book with a character’s name in the title.
How it Fits: Jacob

27. Current Sitcom: The Honeymooners
Book: One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley
Author: Carol Ann Lee
Date Read: Aug 27th
Task: Read a book featuring a couple
How it Fits: Myra Hindley & Ian Brady

28. Current Sitcom: Colour Television
Book: Last-Minute Travel Secrets: 121 Ingenious Tips to Endure Cramped Planes, Car Trouble, Awful Hotels, and Other Trips from Hell
Author: Joey Green
Date Read: Aug 30th
Task: Read a book with a colourful cover.
How it Fits:

Last-Minute Travel Secrets 121 Ingenious Tips to Endure Cramped Planes, Car Trouble, Awful Hotels, and Other Trips from Hell by Joey Green

- Many colours

29. Current Sitcom: The Beverly Hillbillies
Book: Casper the Commuting Cat: The True Story of the Cat who Rode the Bus and Stole our Hearts
Author: Susan Finden
Date Read: Sep 1st
Task: Read a book where a character moves a long way.
How it Fits: Casper would travel on the bus for 11 miles every day

30. Current Sitcom: Gilligan's Island
Book: And a Voice to Sing With
Author: Joan Baez
Date Read: Sep 3rd
Task: Set: Tropical location
How it Fits: Vietnam: "Across the street were tiny houses of the poor with mud courtyards and tropical-looking trees hung with laundry." p.217

31. Current Sitcom: I Dream of Jeannie
Book: The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
Author: Heinz Heger
Date Read: Sep 5th
Task: Read a book where the MC is in a relationship they keep secret.
How it Fits: "He thought his homosexuality was a secret until he was arrested." p.6

32. Current Sitcom: The Monkees
Book: My Word is My Bond: The Autobiography
Author: Roger Moore
Date Read: Sep 7th
Task: Read a book that mentions any band
How it Fits: "Ron was a lawyer and had represented The Beatles’ company" p.257

33. Current Sitcom: The Flintstones
Book: Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
Author: Brian Clegg
Date Read: Sep 7th
Task: Text - 'Stone'
How it Fits: "Stone organisms seem unlikely ever to be a reality." p.118

34. Current Sitcom: Bewitched
Book: How to Build a Universe: An Infinite Monkey Cage Adventure
Author: Brian Cox
Date Read: Sep 11th
Task: Cover - stars
How it Fits:

How to Build a Universe An Infinite Monkey Cage Adventure by Brian Cox

35. Current Sitcom: Camp Runamuck
Book: "You're in the Wrong Bathroom!": And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions about Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People
Author: Laura Erickson-Schroth
Date Read: Sep 13th
Task: Plot - girls vs. boys dynamic
How it Fits: "Myth 2: All trans people want to be either Barbie or Ken" p.11

36. Current Sitcom: Julia
Book: How to Change Minds: The Art of Influence without Manipulation
Author: Rob Jolles
Date Read: Sep 14th
Task: Author - FN or LN starts with J
How it Fits: Jolles

37. Current Sitcom: Car 54, Where are You?
Book: Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
Author: Peter Andreas
Date Read: Sep 15th
Task: Char in law enforcement
How it Fits: "Secretary of War William L. Marcy asked for their help in dismantling the whiskey traffic" p.129

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message 131: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:10AM) (new)

Jun 29, 2024 03:49PM

TLC - July 2024 Judge a Book by its Cover

✅ Total: 13

Elements of Art Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces by Susie Hodge

Beneath the Surface of Things New and Selected Essays by Wade Davis

Adventures With the Wife in Space Living With Doctor Who by Neil Perryman

Beyond Banned Books Defending Intellectual Freedom throughout Your Library by Kristin Pekoll

Faster Than Normal Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain by Peter Shankman

Divergent Mind Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg

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Jun 29, 2024 04:09PM

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message 133: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:09AM) (new)

Jun 29, 2024 04:36PM

✅ AMMP - July 2024 Cover Hunt

🥂L ❣ Love ❣ couple embracing

Impulse Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It by David R. Lewis

- Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥂I ❣ I Do ❣ letter I

- The High Cost of Free Parking - ⭐️
🥂A ❣ Altar ❣ table

The Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Abigail Williams

- The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home - ⭐️⭐️
🥂M ❣ Marriage ❣ two people that appear to be a couple

- Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🥂M ❣ Maid of Honour ❣ single woman

The Universe Has Your Back Transform Fear to Faith by Gabrielle Bernstein

- The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥂A ❣ Aisle ❣ road

- A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - ⭐️⭐️
🥂R ❣ Ring ❣ any kind of jewellery

Wealth Habits Six Ordinary Steps to Achieve Extraordinary Financial Freedom by Candy Valentino

- Wealth Habits: Six Ordinary Steps to Achieve Extraordinary Financial Freedom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥂R ❣ Reception ❣ 3 or more people

- Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥂I ❣ Ideal ❣ ideal cover

- Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work - Bookcase - ⭐️⭐️
🥂E ❣ Engagement ❣ two people that appear to be a couple

Learning Spanish; How to Understand and Speak a New Language (Course #2810) by Bill Worden

- Learning Spanish; How to Understand and Speak a New Language - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥂D ❣ Dance ❣ any people in obvious motion of some kind

- The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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✅ TOAP - Battle of the Mods

Team Deborah

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✅ GN - The Traitors: Disney Team Challenge - Pluto's Pack of Deceivers

July 15th - Sept 8th

Week 1

Compulsory Task
Book: Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Author: Anne Helen Petersen
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book with a title that starts with one of the letters in "MICKEY."
How it Fits: Title starts with C

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
Author: Dasha Kiper
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book with all the letters in the word "MOUSE" in the title.
How it Fits: travElers tO UniMaginable landS

Bonus Task: 20 points
Book: Magnify: Make Your Life Matter
Author: Ron Malhotra
Date Read: July 18th
Task 1: Read a book with over 50 chapters.
Task 2: Read a book by an author with a first or last initial of "M."
How it Fits: 365 chapters 🤯

Week 2

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain
Author: Peter Shankman
Date Read: July 22nd
Task: 4. Read a book with a three-word title.

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness
Author: Elaine Pofeldt
Date Read: July 22nd
Task: 1. Read a book with a yellow cover.
How it Fits:

Compulsory Task
Book: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Author: Sarah Silverman
Date Read: July 23rd
Task: Read a book with a character age 12 or under.
How it Fits: There are a few chapters about her childhood.

Week 3

Compulsory Task
Book: Socratic Questioning for Therapists and Counselors: Learn How to Think and Intervene Like a Cognitive Behavior Therapist
Author: Scott H. Waltman
Date Read: July 31st
Task: Read a book with all the letters in the word “LION” in the title.
How it Fits: sOcratic questioNing for therapIsts and counseLors

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Doctor Who: The Witchfinders
Author: Joy Wilkinson
Date Read: July 31st
Task: Read a book with a royal character.
How it Fits: King James

Bonus Task: 20
Book: The Nature of Leadership: Reptiles, Mammals, And the Challenge of Becoming a Great Leader
Author: B. Joseph White
Date Read: Aug 2nd
Task: Read a book with a wild animal on the cover. 10 bonus coins if it is a lion.
How it Fits:

The Nature of Leadership Reptiles, Mammals, And the Challenge of Becoming a Great Leader by B. Joseph White

- Lion on cover

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse
Author: Jake Bright
Date Read: Aug 3rd
Task: Read a book that takes place in Africa.
How it Fits: It's in the title, that it's about Africa

Week 4

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Fodor's Essential China
Author: Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.
Date Read: Aug 6th
Task: Read a book with only two 'E's in the title.
How it Fits: 2 E's in 'Essential'

Bonus Task: 20 points
Book: Mastering Erotic Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Manual for Erotic Play, Fetish, and Kink
Author: James Gordon
Date Read: Aug 8th
Task: Read a book with a clock or watch on the cover. 10 bonus coins if it is a pocket watch.
How it Fits:

Compulsory Task
Book: KISS: Behind the Mask - Official Authorized Biography
Author: David Leaf
Date Read: Aug 10th
Task: Read a book with a character named Peter.
How it Fits: One of the MC's name is Peter Criscuola

Week 5

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: A Woman Like Me
Author: Bettye LaVette
Date Read: Aug 13th
Task: Read a book with a character who is musical.
How it Fits: Bettye is a great singer

Compulsory Task
Book: The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul
Author: Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
Date Read: Aug 14th
Task: Read a book with a title that starts with an 'A' or 'U'
How it Fits: Apart from 'The', title starts with 'A'

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Master Your Beliefs : A Practical Guide to Stop Doubting Yourself and Build Unshakeable Confidence
Author: Thibaut Meurisse
Date Read: Aug 15th
Task: Read a book with a purple cover.
How it Fits:

Master Your Beliefs A Practical Guide to Stop Doubting Yourself and Build Unshakeable Confidence (Mastery Series Book 7) by Thibaut Meurisse

Week 6

Compulsory Task
Book: Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
Author: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Date Read: Aug 20th
Task: Read a book with a type of flower in the title.
How it Fits: Cherry Blossom

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy
Author: Doug Wead
Date Read: Aug 20th
Task: Read a book with two people on the cover.
How it Fits:

Game of Thorns The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy by Doug Wead

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics
Author: Edward T. Haslam
Date Read: Aug 22nd
Task: Read a book with an animal in the title.
How it Fits: Monkey

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Unmedicated: The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness
Author: Madisyn Taylor
Date Read: Aug 23rd
Task: Read a book with a blue cover.
How it Fits:

Unmedicated The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness by Madisyn Taylor

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: How to Sound Cultured: Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation
Author: Thomas W. Hodgkinson
Date Read: Aug 24th
Task: Read a book with a character who is frugal.
How it Fits: "Spinoza devoted himself with astonishing purpose to these goals of freedom and understanding. He lived very frugally, ate little, abstained from sex, and often spent days on end working, without leaving the house." p.23

Week 7

Compulsory Task
Book: Overcoming Impossible: Learn to Lead, Build a Team, and Catapult Your Business to Success
Author: Robert Irvine
Date Read: Aug 26th
Task: Read a book that starts with a letter in “SNOW WHITE.”
How it Fits: Starts with O

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Human Universe
Author: Brian Cox
Date Read: Aug 27th
Task: Read a book with a white cover.
How it Fits:

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: On Self-Hatred: Learning to like oneself
Author: The School of Life
Date Read: Aug 27th
Task: Read a short book of 125 pages or less.
How it Fits: 101 pages

Bonus Task: 20 points
Book: White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
Author: Allen W. Trelease
Date Read: Aug 27th
Task: Read a book with a colour in the title. 10 bonus coins if the colour is 'white'.
How it Fits: White Terror

Bonus Task: 20 points
Book: The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine - 4 Volume set
Author: Jacqueline L. Longe
Date Read: Aug 28th
Task: Read a book with fruit on the cover. 10 bonus coins if the fruit is an apple.
How it Fits:

The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine - 4 Volume set by Jacqueline L. Longe

- It has been cut in half

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul
Author: Nelson George
Date Read: Aug 28th
Task: Read a book with the word “snow” in the text.
How it Fits: "frozen flat from the melted snow that dripped from the drainpipes above." p.77

Week 8

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Killing Rasputin: The Murder That Ended The Russian Empire
Author: Margarita Nelipa
Date Read: Sep 4th
Task: Page count - '5'
How it Fits: 570 pages

Compulsory Task
Book: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Author: Ross King
Date Read: Sep 4th
Task: Set: A country where there is a Disney theme park.
How it Fits: France

Bonus Task: 20 points
Book: China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors
Author: Frances Wood
Date Read: Sep 6th
Task: Read a book with a country in the title. 10 bonus coins if it is China.

Bonus Task: 20 points
Book: Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
Author: Emily Anthes
Date Read: Sep 6th
Task: Read a book with a rodent on the cover. 10 bonus coins if the rodent is a mouse.
How it Fits:

Frankenstein's Cat Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes

Bonus Task: 20 points
Book: Positively Introverted: Finding Your Way in a World Full of People
Author: Maureen Marzi Wilson
Date Read: Sep 6th
Task: Read a book with the word “amusement” in the text. 10 bonus coins if it's "amusement park" intact.
How it Fits: "Fun places that aren't fun for long: concerts, amusement parks, public pools." p.31

Bonus Task: 10 points
Book: Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
Author: Brian Clegg
Date Read: Sep 7th
Task: Cover - blue
How it Fits:

Ten Billion Tomorrows How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future by Brian Clegg

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✅ HOB - Name Game: Richard & LaurLa

✅ 1. Name
L: 3/7 - 100 Motivational Quotes To Read, Journey B. Lee - ⭐️
A: 3/7 - Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation - ⭐️⭐️
U: 4/7 - Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 6/7 - Restaurant Babylon - ⭐️⭐️
L: 3/7 - 101 Ways to Be Less Stressed: Simple Self-Care Strategies to Boost Your Mind, Mood, and Mental Health, Caroline Leaf - ⭐️⭐️
A: 3/7 - A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal, Kate Aronoff - ⭐️⭐️

L: 5/7 - Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 2. State
Indiana
20/7 - Rudy: My Story - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 2. Animal Incarnate
Dog
26/7 -

Advanced Spanish Step-by-Step Master Accelerated Grammar to Take Your Spanish to the Next Level (Easy Step-by-Step Series) (Spanish Edition) by Barbara Bregstein

- Advanced Spanish Step-by-Step: Master Accelerated Grammar to Take Your Spanish to the Next Level (Easy Step-by-Step Series) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 3. Decade
1980's
30/7 - Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story - The band Bananarama started in 1980 - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 4. Island Book
Inspirational
5/8 - Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success - Story of redemption - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 5. Fave Book
James Patterson
23/8 - The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading, James Patterson - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 6. Fave Holiday
Christmas
29/8 - Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism - ⭐️
"And one Christmas season, Isabel decided to learn as much as she could about animals." p.179

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HOB - July 2024: Just Can't Wait to be King

✅ Total: 20/20

1. Read a book with a king
The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show - King Solomon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Read a book with a beast of some sort
Restaurant Babylon - verbally-abusive head chef - ⭐️⭐️

3. Read a book with a character who doesn't have much hair
Man’s Search for Meaning - MC had his whole body shaved - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Read a book with all the letters of ROAR in the title
100 Positive Quotes To Read In The Morning, Journey B. Lee - ⭐️

5. Read a book with the author's initials in SIMBA
Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture, Mark Bergen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Read a book that starts with a letter in ZAZU
Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation - ⭐️⭐️

7. Read a book set in Africa
Tekebash and Saba: Recipes from the Horn of Africa - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Read a book with all the letters of NALA in the title
100 Motivational Quotes To Read, Journey B. Lee - ⭐️

9. Read a book with double letters in the title
101 Ways to Be Less Stressed: Simple Self-Care Strategies to Boost Your Mind, Mood, and Mental Health - Stressed - ⭐️⭐️

10. Read a book with a child on the cover
Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

11. Read a book where someone is a singer
You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup - ⭐️⭐️

12. Read a book with the word WING in the title
Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

13. Read a book with the word HERD in the text
Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World - p.12 - ⭐️⭐️

14. Read a book where someone is in the spotlight
Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

15. Read a book with the word LEFT in the text
What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"My complete incompetence at the neurotypical dance of flirting left them with mixed signals." p.50

16. Read a book with the word RIGHT in the title
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions - ⭐️⭐️

17. Read a book with a monarchy
Why you should give a f*ck about farming: Because you eat - Australia - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

18. Read a book where someone has to wait for something they want
Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World - Truman had to wait for a chance to prove himself - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

19. Read a book with an event of some sort
Enough - Olympic Games - ⭐️⭐️

20. Read a book that starts with a letter in FREE
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - ⭐️⭐️

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HOB - July 2024: Birth Flower Individual Challenge

✅ Total: 30/30

1. Read a book with LARKSPUR in the text.
Word Origins - "delphīnion, a name given to the plant larkspur on account of the dolphin-like shape of part of its flower" p.183 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Read a book published in July.
Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes - ⭐️⭐️

3. Read a book with a vibrantly coloured cover.

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Jul 02, 2024 12:28PM

✅ TOAP - Richard & Harry are Celebrating!

✅ 1. Harry Potter's Birthday
Task: Read a book with a 7 in the page count
Book/Author: Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration, LaTasha Morrison
Date Read: July 6th
How it Fits: 327 pages

✅ 2. Invitations
Task: Read a book that starts with a letter in INVITATION
Book/Author: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Robin D.G. Kelley
Date Read: July 7th
How it Fits: Title starts with T

✅ 3. Decorations
Task: Read a book with a colourful cover
Book/Author: Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace, Eris Young
Date Read: July 13th
How it Fits:

Ace Voices What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace by Eris Young

✅ 4. Cake
Task: Read a book with a 4 word title
Book/Author: Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions, Philip M. Rosenzweig
Date Read: July 15th
How it Fits: 4 words in title

✅ 5. Guest List
Task: Read a book with all the letters of LIST in the title
Book/Author: Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize With a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch, Richard Greene
Date Read: July 15th
How it Fits: quentIn Tarantino & phiLoSophy

✅ 6. Rita Skeeter
Task: Read a book with a double E in the title
Book/Author: Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health, Bruce W. Perry
Date Read: July 19th
How it Fits: gEEks

✅ 7. Fleur Delacour
Task: Read a book with a blond female on the cover.
Book/Author: Yes Please, Amy Poehler
Date Read: July 21st
How it Fits:

✅ 8. Moaning Myrtle
Task: Read a book with a scene in a bathroom
Book/Author: Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain, Peter Shankman
Date Read: July 22nd
How it Fits: "I was in the bathroom at 2:00 A.M. and caught sight of myself in the mirror" p.68

✅ 9. Alastor ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody
Book: Who Is Alex Trebek?: A Biography
Author: Lisa Rogak
Date Read: July 24th
Task: Read a book with an eye clearly visible on the cover
How it Fits:

Who Is Alex Trebek? A Biography by Lisa Rogak

✅ 10. Buckbeak
Book: Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
Author: Nicholas Kardaras
Date Read: July 25th
Task: Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in HIPPOGRIFF
How it Fits: G

✅ 11. Neville Longbottom
Book: Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
Author: B.J. Fogg
Date Read: July 26th
Task: Read a book in which the MC makes a transformation.
How it Fits: "As I accumulated dozens of new habits—mostly tiny ones—they combined to create a transformation." p.10

✅ 12. Dobby
Book: Faster, Smarter, Louder: Master Attention in a Noisy Digital Market
Author: Aaron Agius
Date Read: July 27th
Task: Read a book with all the letters of ELF in the title
How it Fits: Faster, smartEr, Louder

✅ 13. Dolores Umbridge
Book: Unbuilt: Radical Visions Of A Future That Never Arrived
Author: Christopher Beanland
Date Read: Aug 1st
Task: Read a book with a title beginning with the letter U
How it Fits: Title starts with U

✅ 14. Sybill Trelawney
Book: Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Author: Frank W. Abagnale
Date Read: Aug 6th
Task: Read a book with someone wearing glasses on the cover
How it Fits:

Catch Me If You Can The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale

✅ 15. Rubeus Hagrid
Book: Lonely Planet Paris
Author: Lonely Planet
Date Read: Aug 7th
Task: Read a book in which it is noted that a character has an accent.
How it Fits: "Napoléon’s inept nephew, the German-reared (and -accented) Louis Napoléon Bonaparte" p.718

✅ 16. Minerva McGonagall
Book: 42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Date Read: Aug 9th
Task: Read a book in which BOTH of the author's initials are in GRYFFINDOR.
How it Fits: Author's initials are DR

✅ 17. Padma Patil
Book: 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary: The 500 Words You Need to Know to Transform Your Vocabulary.and Your Life
Author: Dan Strutzel
Date Read: Aug 12th
Task: Read a book with all of the letters of PADMA in the title
How it Fits: 30 Days to a More Powerful vocAbulAry

✅ 18. Draco Malfoy
Book: Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
Author: John Bloom
Date Read: Aug 14th
Task: Read a book in which there is a character who is a bully.
How it Fits: "America was increasingly perceived as the bully trying to claim all of outer space for itself." p.63

✅ 19. Albus Dumbledore
Book: You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery
Author: Mamrie Hart
Date Read: Aug 16th
Task: Read a book with a character who is a principal
How it Fits: "I wanted to have pep rallies in an oddly small burger joint and throw secret surprise parties in my principal’s office because for some reason there wasn’t anywhere else to throw them." - p.161

✅ 20. Sirius Black
Book: Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Author: Annie Jacobsen
Date Read: Aug 17th
Task: Read a book with a black cover
How it Fits:

Area 51 An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen

✅ 21. Luna Lovegood
Book: Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns, and Come Home to Yourself
Author: Sheleana Aiyana
Date Read: Aug 19th
Task: Read a book with an author whose last name begins with a letter in LUNA.
How it Fits: Author's LN starts with A

✅ 22. Hedwig
Book: Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice
Author: Natalie Goldberg
Date Read: Aug 20th
Task: Read a book with a title starting with a letter in OWL
How it Fits: Title starts with W

✅ 23. Remus Lupin
Book: A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
Author: Vanessa Wilkie
Date Read: Aug 22nd
Task: Read a book in which the MC makes a transformation
How it Fits: "As a young girl, Alice’s education had been designed to prepare her to be a charming wife, but what she was beginning to learn at Knowsley was calculated to transform her into a countess." p.40

✅ 24. The Wesley kids
Book: Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments
Author: John Brockman
Date Read: Aug 23rd
Task: Read a book with a 7 in the publication date.
How it Fits: First published January 1, 2017

✅ 25. Bellatrix Lestrange
Book: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins
Date Read: Aug 24th
Task: Read a book with an X in the title

✅ 26. Ron Weasley
Book: One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley
Author: Carol Ann Lee
Date Read: Aug 27th
Task: Read a book in which the MC has a best friend.
How it Fits: "Myra’s best friend was Joyce Hardy" p.41

✅ 27. Severus Snape
Book: Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy
Author: Jonathan Gill
Date Read: Sep 2nd
Task: Read a book with a double agent character.
How it Fits: MC is a double agent. It's in the title.

✅ 28. Lord Voldemort
Book: Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire
Author: Glenn Yeffeth
Date Read: Sep 3rd
Task: Read a book in which a character is feared by many.
How it Fits: "Angelus was pure evil." p.12

✅ 29. Hermione Granger
Book: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Author: Jenny Lawson
Date Read: Sep 6th
Task: Read a book with a great female MC.
How it Fits: She is hilarious

✅ 30. Harry Potter
Book: A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
Author: Michael A. Cook
Date Read: Sep 9th
Task: Orphan char
How it Fits: "Zayd was an orphan, and still in his twenties" p.188

✅ 31. Fave - Sirius
Book: A History of Evil in Popular Culture 2 volumes : What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and Vampires Reveal about America 2 volumes
Author: Sharon Packer MD
Date Read: Sep 11th
Task: Fave genre
How it Fits: Psychology/philosophy of pop culture

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Jul 04, 2024 06:37PM

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Jul 04, 2024 06:37PM

- ⭐️⭐️
b. Orange:

How to Hug a Porcupine Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life (Little Book. Big Idea.) by June Eding

- ⭐️⭐️
c. Yellow:

Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude How to Find, Build and Keep a Yes! Attitude for a Lifetime of Success by Jeffrey Gitomer

- ⭐️⭐️
d. Green:

- ⭐️⭐️
e. Blue:

- ⭐️⭐️
f. Purple:

- ⭐️⭐️
g. Pink:

- ⭐️⭐️
h. Black:

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

- ⭐️⭐️⭐️
i. White:

- ⭐️⭐️

20. 3 books with authors who share names with 3 people you know
a. John: Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad, John Eldredge - ⭐️⭐️
b. Jacob: The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back, Jacob Ward - ⭐️⭐️
c. Morgan: Exploring BDSM: A Workbook for Couples (or More) Discovering Kink - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

21. A book for every season in said season
a. Winter: A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins - ⭐️⭐️
b. Spring:
c: Summer:
d. Autumn:

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message 147: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:05AM) (new)

Jul 06, 2024 12:15PM

✅ C&F - Richard's Scattergories Game

✅ 1. Letter L

1. Read a book written by a man with your letter as an initial.
Liebermann - 14/7 - Ganbatte!: The Japanese Art of Always Moving Forward, Albert Liebermann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Read a book by a Canadian author.
Lewis - 10/7 - Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It, David R. Lewis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Read a book with all the letters of COLD in title.
Ludwig - 11/7 - Always Delicious: Over 175 Satisfying Recipes to Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Keep the Weight Off Permanently, David Ludwig - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Read a book with an average rating under 3.5
Lloyd - 14/8 - A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins - ⭐️⭐️
Average rating (before mine) was 3.33

5. Read a book with MPG Sports.
Legacy - 25/7 - Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Read a book with a plural noun in title.
Lessons - 6/7 - Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work - ⭐️⭐️

7. Read a book where someone goes to a coffee place.
Livewired - 15/7 - Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"After months of practice, I could use the telephone again, even converse in loud bars and cafeterias." p.59

8. Read a book with a cover similar to another book cover.
Languages - 6/8 - Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way by Gene M. Hammitt

is similar to

Learn Russian The Fast and Fun Way (Russian and English Edition) by Thomas R. Beyer Jr.

9. Read a book about a TV show.
Lisa - 24/7 - Who Is Alex Trebek?: A Biography, Lisa Rogak - ⭐️⭐️
Jeopardy

10. Read a book where the MC goes swimming.
Leaf - 10/8 - KISS: Behind the Mask - Official Authorized Biography, David Leaf - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I was in Hawaii, swimming off a catamaran about a mile and a half from shore." p.132

11. Read a book with weather found in text.
Left - 15/7 - Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions - ⭐️⭐️
"A model can predict the rainfall and days of sunshine on a given farm in central Iowa, but can’t change the weather." p.145

12. Read a book with MPG Children
Lane - 18/7 - The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography, Margaret Lane - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 2. Letter C

1. Read a book written by a famous female (famous for things other than books)
Collins - 19/9 - Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music, Judy Collins - ⭐️⭐️
Famous singer

2. Read a book with MPG Science
Cox - 27/8 - Human Universe, Brian Cox - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Read a book with all the letters of MACHINE in title
Cut - 20/8 - Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cut tHE crap and Feel AMazINg

4. Read a book with MPG Non-Fiction
Crossing - 18/8 - Crossing the Desert: The Power of Embracing Life's Difficult Journeys - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Read a book with an acronym found in text
Cult - 15/8 - Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Reporters were also following the lead of the FBI and Secret Service" p.38

6. Read the digital version of a book
Cline - 17/8 - 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline - ⭐️⭐️
Read on my Kindle

7. Read a book with MPG Animal
Casper - 1/9 - Casper the Commuting Cat: The True Story of the Cat who Rode the Bus and Stole our Hearts - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Read a book originally published in another language than English
Complete - 20/9 - Complete Works of Aeschylus - ⭐️⭐️
Originally in Greek

9. Read a book with a door on the cover
Creating - 23/8 - Creating Effective Spaces: Declutter, Organize and Maintain Your Space - ⭐️⭐️

10. Read a book with recipes in it
Camping - 21/8 - Camping Recipes: Foil Packet Cooking - ⭐️⭐️

11. Read a book that helped you grow
Call - 25/8 - Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Good - ⭐️⭐️
Emotional growth

12. Read a book with a scene in an arcade
Carol - 27/8 - One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley, Carol Ann Lee - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The monastery captivated her, from the hallowed, luminous beauty of the stained glass to the cool grace of the stone arcades." p.40

✅ 3. Letter P

1. MPG - fashion
Peres - 9/10 - Details Men's Style Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Making Your Clothes Work for You, Daniel Peres - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Cover - dessert food
Perry - 24/9 - Deep Dark Chocolate: Decadent Recipes for the Serious Chocolate Lover, Sara Perry - ⭐️⭐️

Deep Dark Chocolate Decadent Recipes for the Serious Chocolate Lover by Sara Perry

- Chocolate

3. Plot - road trip
Picasso - 25/9 - Picasso: A Biography, Patrick O'Brian - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Often, when they were driving there, they would reach Aix or even the gateway of the château itself, and then he would abruptly give the order to turn about and drive right back to Cannes." p.492

4. Plot - MC shops
Parachute - 25/9 - Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Mick wanted to go shopping. Soon they were strolling arm in arm through Harrods, where Mick bought Nicholas a shiny new tricycle." p.48

5. Plot - MC plays a sport
Peter - 25/9 - Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I’ve started purposely partaking in group activities like sports." p.202

6. Pages - 400-499
Pérez - 24/9 - Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Pérez - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
448 pages

7. Title - letters of FOLD
Pilgrim - 12/10 - Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
piLgrim in the palace OF worDs

8. Things in a junk drawer
Perfect - 12/10 - The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Perfect Bet How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling by Adam Kucharski

- Playing cards

9. Book bought online
Pressfield - 24/9 - The War Of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle, Steven Pressfield - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. Cover - beach
Picture - 7/10 - Picture Your Prosperity: Smart Money Moves to Turn Your Vision into Reality, Ellen Rogin - ⭐️⭐️

Picture Your Prosperity Smart Money Moves to Turn Your Vision into Reality by Ellen Rogin

11. Plot - dream is described
Possibility - 26/9 - The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"When we dream of a benevolent visitation, we’re telling a story of what we think we need." p.15

12. Title - 'OO'
Paul - 12/10 - A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More - ⭐️⭐️
rOOm

✅ 4. Letter M

1. MC - hero
Melville - 30/10 - A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander, Jonathan Melville - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
MC is an immortal hero

2. Published - my birthday month (July)
Mother - 3/12 - The Mother of All Success Manuals: How to Control Your Days, Lose the Guilt, and Find Harmony Between Work and Life, Clara Capano - ⭐️⭐️
Published July 25, 2023

3. Text - endearment
Mastering - 31/10 - Mastering the Shakespeare Audition: A Quick Guide to Performance Success, Donna Soto-Morettini - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Sweet, bid me hold my tongue" p.196

4. Plot - dancing
Mathews - 29/10 - The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam v. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut, Jack Mathews - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Gilliam had gone a little berserk himself. He was dancing around the room and laughing like a child." p.139

5. Cover - mostly black
Michael - 30/10 - Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, Michael Korda - ⭐️⭐️

Hero The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda

6. Cover - road
Madrid - 23/11 - Madrid: Midnight City - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Madrid Midnight City (Cityscopes) by Helen Crisp

7. Title - all the letters of ARENA
Mortimer - 31/10 - A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom, Mortimer J. Adler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A guidebook to lEARNing

8. Author - initials in Gossip
MBA - 29/11 - MBA In A Day: What You Would Learn At Top-Tier Business Schools, Steven Stralser - ⭐️⭐️
SS

9. Cover - at least 5 different colours
Maureen - 5/11 - Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses, Maureen Seaberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made The Astonishing New Science of the Senses by Maureen Seaberg

10. Cover - store
Matthew - 25/11 - Shopping Mall, Matthew Newton - ⭐️⭐️

Shopping Mall (Object Lessons) by Matthew Newton

11. Cover - handbag
Moore - 25/11 - Refuse to Do Nothing: Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery, Shayne Moore - ⭐️⭐️

Refuse to Do Nothing Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery by Shayne Moore

12. Set - not Australia (my country)
My - 29/10 - My Life - ⭐️⭐️
America

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message 148: by Richard (last edited Dec 31, 2024 04:05AM) (new)

Jul 11, 2024 03:42AM

HOB - Spotlight AM: Richard

✅ 1-34

✅ Book 1 - Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
Book: Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
Author: Tammie Jo Shults
Pages: 288
Date Read: July 12th
Task: Read a book with someone who is adopted
How it Fits: The MC's child is adopted

✅ Book 2 - Acorna's Quest
Book: Attempting Normal
Author: Marc Maron
Date Read: July 12th
Task: Read a book with a cat on the cover
How it Fits:

✅ Book 3 - Acorna's People
Book: The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Author: Jagdish Mehra
Date Read: July 13th
Task: Read a book where someone has a secret
How it Fits: "Feynman had all the secrets of the atomic bomb at his disposal." p.190

✅ Book 4 - Acorna's World
Book: Don't Stand too close to a Naked Man
Author: Tim Allen
Date Read: July 13th
Task: Read a book that starts with a letter in ROADKILL
How it Fits: Starts with D

✅ Book 5 - Acorna's Search
Book: Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize With a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch
Author: Richard Greene
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book with all the letters of AARI in the title
How it Fits: quentIn tARAntino

✅ Book 6 - Acorna's Rebels
Book: Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Author: Anne Helen Petersen
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book where someone crashes
How it Fits: The book is about burnout, which is synonymous with crashing

✅ Book 7 - Acorna's Triumph
Book: Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
Author: Dasha Kiper
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book where someone loses their memory
How it Fits: Many characters lose their memory

✅ Book 8 - First Warning: Acorna's Children
Book: Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind
Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Date Read: July 16th
Task: Healer character
How it Fits: Features doctors & psychologists who help treat PTSD

✅ Book 9 - Second Wave: Acorna's Children
Book: The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism
Author: Peter Biskind
Date Read: July 19th
Task: Read a book with an android character
How it Fits: It's in the title, so there's many characters in the book

✅ Book 10 - Third Watch: Acorna's Children
Book: The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
Author: Colin Evans
Date Read: July 16th
Task: Read a book with sisters
How it Fits: "two sisters in Bristol" p.42

✅ Book 11 - Dragonsflight
Book: Whole: How I Learned to Fill the Fragments of My Life with Forgiveness, Hope, Strength, and Creativity
Author: Melissa G. Moore
Date Read: July 22nd
Task: Read a book with a blue cover
How it Fits:

Whole How I Learned to Fill the Fragments of My Life with Forgiveness, Hope, Strength, and Creativity by Melissa G. Moore

✅ Book 12 - Dragonquest
Book: Rudy: My Story
Author: Rudy Ruettiger
Date Read: July 20th
Task: Read a book with brothers
How it Fits: "that house was packed full of brothers and sisters." p.22

✅ Book 13 - Dragonsong
Book: Yes Please
Author: Amy Poehler
Date Read: July 21st
Task: Read a book with one female on the cover
How it Fits:

✅ Book 14 - Dragonsinger
Book: Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
Author: James Riordan
Date Read: July 27th
Task: Read a book tagged music
How it Fits: MPG is Music

✅ Book 15 - The Smallest Dragon Boy
Book: Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
Author: Nicholas Kardaras
Date Read: July 25th
Task: Read a book with a short character
How it Fits: Many children characters

✅ Book 16 - The White Dragon
Book: Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
Author: B.J. Fogg
Date Read: July 26th
Task: Read book with a white cover
How it Fits:

✅ Book 17 - Dragondrums
Book: Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
Author: Sara Dallin
Date Read: July 30th
Task: Read a book with a singer
How it Fits: The book is about 2 singers from the band Bananarama

✅ Book 18 - Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
Book: The Ultimate Legacy: A Novel
Author: Jim Stovall
Date Read: Aug 1st
Task: Read a book where someone dies
How it Fits: An old lady dies & the book goes through the completion of her will

✅ Book 19 - Nerilka's Story
Book: Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression
Author: Allison Raskin
Date Read: July 27th
Task: Read a book with a selfish character
How it Fits: Selfish partner

✅ Book 20 - Dragonsdawn
Book: Dr. George Washington Carver: Scientist
Author: Shirley Graham du Bois
Date Read: Aug 1st
Task: Read a book with a talented character
How it Fits: He was a talented & compassionate scientist.

✅ Book 21 - The Renegades of Pern
Book: 15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy: An Inspiring Guide to Discovering Effortless Joy
Author: Luminita D. Saviuc
Date Read: Aug 6th
Task: Read a book with all the letters of JAYGE in the title & subtitle
How it Fits: 15 things You should Give up to bE hAppy: an inspiring guide to discovering effortless Joy

✅ Book 22 - The Weyrs of Pern
Book: The Nature of Leadership: Reptiles, Mammals, And the Challenge of Becoming a Great Leader
Author: B. Joseph White
Date Read: Aug 2nd
Task: Read a book with all the letters THREAD in the title
How it Fits: tHe nATare of leaDERship

✅ Book 23 - The Dolphins of Pern
Book: Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
Author: Bill François
Date Read: Aug 11th
Task: Read a book with ocean-dwellers
How it Fits: It's a book about creatures of the sea

✅ Book 24 - Dragonseye
Book: Chillpreneur: The New Rules for Creating Success, Freedom, and Abundance on Your Terms
Author: Denise Duffield-Thomas
Date Read: Aug 7th
Task: Read a book with 200+ pages
How it Fits: 304 pages

✅ Book 25 - The Masterharper of Pern
Book: Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch with the Earth
Author: Michael Sandler
Date Read: Aug 11th
Task: Read a book with a couple on the cover
How it Fits:

Barefoot Running How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch with the Earth by Michael Sandler

✅ Book 26 - The Skies of Pern
Book: Empowered: Live Your Life with Passion and Purpose
Author: Vee Kativhu
Date Read: Aug 13th
Task: Read a book that starts with a letter in DANGER
How it Fits: Title starts with E

✅ Book 27 - Dragon's Kin
Book: 1956: the year Australia welcomed the world
Author: Nick Richardson
Date Read: Aug 16th
Task: Read a book with a miner
How it Fits: "rumours started circulating that a miner in the Pilbara, in Western Australia, had picked up high radioactivity readings on his Geiger counter." p.89

✅ Book 28 - Dragonsblood
Book: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Author: Meghan O'Rourke
Date Read: Aug 13th
Task: Read a book with the word CLUE in the text
How it Fits: "I finally had a clue to why my mornings were so awful." p.116

✅ Book 29 - Dragon's Fire
Book: Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
Author: Keith Thomson
Date Read: Aug 18th
Task: Read a book tagged CRIME
How it Fits: MPG Crime

✅ Book 30 - Dragon Harper
Book: Breakthrough Rapid Reading
Author: Peter Kump
Date Read: Aug 20th
Task: Read a book with all the letters of HARPER in the title
How it Fits: breaktHrough RaPid REAding

✅ Book 31 - Dragonheart
Book: Unleashing Creativity
Author: Masonwabe Nyanga
Date Read: Aug 17th
Task: Read a book that is 500+ pages
How it Fits: 528 pages

✅ Book 32 - Dragongirl
Book: Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Date Read: Aug 25th
Task: Read a book with a gold cover
How it Fits:

Silence The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise by Thich Nhat Hanh

✅ Book 33 - Dragon's Time
Book: Wordwatching: How to Break into the Dictionary
Author: Alex Horne
Date Read: Aug 25th
Task: Read a book with any time device on the cover
How it Fits:

Wordwatching How to Break into the Dictionary by Alex Horne

✅ Book 34 - Sky Dragons
Book: Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
Author: Rebecca Stott
Date Read: Aug 26th
Task: Read a book snakes on the cover
How it Fits:

Darwin's Ghosts The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott

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Jul 11, 2024 03:49AM

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Jul 11, 2024 03:57AM

TCF - July/August 2024 Bonus Scavenger Hunt

✅ Total: 40/40

Addition (to a building)
The High Cost of Free Parking - "The addition of a drive-in window at a bank" p.128 - ⭐️
Budget
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions - "perhaps devising a monthly budget" p.154 - ⭐️⭐️
Canopy
Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace - "An enormous canopied bed covered by an ermine spread" p.74 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Contractor
Don't Stand too close to a Naked Man - "My brother is a contractor in Kalamazoo" p.133 - ⭐️
Dough
The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz - "flour that’s used to make everything from pasta to cereal to pizza dough" p.48 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dried
FOOD DIY How to Make Your Own Everything: sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon to buns - "the dried-up old dust that's been in the back of the cupboard" p.22 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Erupt
Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today - "A flash of light erupts, and three older men appear in the room" p.120 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Flank
Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize With a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch - "deployed Coleridge and Wordsworth to protect the flanks" p.136 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Glower
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages - "It seems to me that they are glowering on the floor" p.16 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gourmet
The Female Logic: 7 Strategies on How To Decode and Understand What A Woman Wants When She Is Testing You - "“Mammoth Au Jus,” or whatever passed for “gourmet dining” back in Neanderthal and Homo Erectus days." p.5 - ⭐️
Hardy
The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI - "Miss Margaret Hardy, had mounted her high horse and sternly lectured a group of reporters" p.247 - ⭐️⭐️
Honest
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain - "She was also honest with others, which helped when dealing with at-risk kids." p.55 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Invest
Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life - "which relationships to invest our hearts, bodies, and souls into" p.85 - ⭐️⭐️
Junk
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World - "overrunning the web with informational junk food" p.144 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Karma
Attempting Normal - "Karma? Sure. She got me sober, though." p.39 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Library
The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - "The library had no books on calculus." p.67 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Livestock
Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge - "on weekends ground our own livestock feed" p.16 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Malt
Buzz - "roast the barley malt prior to fermentation" p.26 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Manipulate
The History of Ukraine and Russia: The Tangled Events That Led to Crisis - "It gets harder to manipulate events and records if the world press shows an interest in what you are doing." p.43 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Melody
Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind - "he had conceived the melody after hearing Robeson speak" p.206 - ⭐️⭐️
Moss
Ganbatte!: The Japanese Art of Always Moving Forward - "Move ahead, but keep the moss." p.27 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nick
Wisdom From The Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons From Alexander The Great, Julius Caesar, And The Illustrious Leaders Of Ancient Greece And Rome - "self-confessed “rogue trader” Nick Leeson" p.234 - ⭐️⭐️
Oregano
Wired to Eat: How to Rewire Your Appetite and Lose Weight for Good - "sprinkle some herbes de Provence (savory, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, and oregano) on the cantaloupe" p.163 - ⭐️⭐️
Plunge
Encylopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences - "I plunged at once into the blackest melancholy" p.194 - ⭐️⭐️
Portrait
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain - "Tillie Olsen’s portrait of a dying grandmother" p.224 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Quaint
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope - "But today, it is but a quaint memory" p.157 - ⭐️⭐️
Rectangle
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home - "small rectangular slips of paper or pasteboard on which the owner’s name was written" p.56 - ⭐️⭐️
Robust
Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace - "Instead, they are flexible, mutually negotiated and robust because of this." p.154 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rye
Anti-Inflammatory Diet: Your Ultimate Guide To Healing Inflammation, Alleviating Pain and Restoring Physical Health With 50 Delicious Anti-Inflammatory Recipes - "Avoid: Barley, rye, wheat, kamut, candy, cereal, and pasta." p.31 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shake (the beverage)
Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health - "as is the occasional whey protein shake" p.105 - ⭐️
Shuttle
Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad - "blast all day like the space shuttle" p.62 - ⭐️⭐️
Sin
Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend - "he is not only more sinned against than sinning; he’s not even guilty." p.9 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Syrup
Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography - "To risk my track and field life for a cough syrup was a dumb-assed move" p.177 - ⭐️⭐️
Telegram
The Real J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle-Earth - "on 2 June 1916, Tolkien received a telegram" p.118 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tweet
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation - "while I’m standing there in my towel, I look it up online and tweet it." p.133 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Utility
Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine - "Re-establish basic utilities such as electricity and water" p.54 - ⭐️⭐️
Vault
Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes - "short of high-security bank vaults, are easily rammed" p.94 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Weary
Ted Bundy: America’s Most Evil Serial Killer - "wearing a torn prison uniform and looking weary" p.100 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Whim
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex - "Maid Marian isn’t just being cock-blocked by her chastity belt to protect her from the whims of lusty men" p.87 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Zeal
Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays - "mercantile zeal drove an economy based on a fashion statement" p.18 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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