Hooked on Books discussion

✅ FLOAB - Richard's Discworld

1. Book: The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics--and How They Shook the Scientific World
Author: Stephen Hawking
Date Read: Nov 1st
Task: Cover - circle
How it Fits:

2. Book: No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Author: Michael J. Fox
Date Read: Nov 4th
Task: Title - any word of 4 letters or more from the Discworld Wizards series titles in the title
How it Fits: Time

3. Main Character: Rincewind
Book: A Year of Self-Care: Daily Practices and Inspiration for Caring for Yourself
Author: Dr. Zoe Shaw
Date Read: Nov 6th
Task: Author - 'Z'
How it Fits: AFN is Zoe

4. Welcome to Unseen University!
Book: From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492 - 1969
Author: Eric Williams
Date Read: Nov 8th
Task: Title - U U
How it Fits: colUmbUs

5. Mustrum Ridcully
Book: Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder
Author: William Shatner
Date Read: Nov 10th
Task: MC - 51+
How it Fits: "Shortly after my ninetieth birthday" p.7

6. The Librarian
Book: Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
Author: Clive James
Date Read: Nov 11th
Task: Cover - something bright orange
How it Fits: - tea stain

7. Discworld Series: The Gods
Book: Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator
Author: Benjamin Brose
Date Read: Nov 17th
Task: Plot - belief is important
How it Fits: "Most Chinese Buddhists, detractors argued, hid behind the doctrine of inherent awakening to obviate the need for self-improvement." p.193

8. Welcome to Ankh-Morpork!
Book: My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
Author: Kevin Smith
Date Read: Nov 21st
Task: Title - A M
How it Fits: My Ass

9. Lord Vetinari
Book: Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
Author: Russ Buettner
Date Read: Nov 22nd
Task: Char - tyrant or dictator
How it Fits: MC is Donald Trump. Enough said.

10. City Watch Series
Book: Madrid: Midnight City
Author: Helen Crisp
Date Read: Nov 23rd
Task: Char - police
How it Fits: "The worst case of violence was the murder of the city’s police chief" p.96

11. Sam Vimes
Book: American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
Author: Jeremy Dauber
Date Read: Nov 24th
Task: Char - Sam
How it Fits: "Salem 1692, as one Samuel Parris, a reverend, a man of God" p.25

12. Captain Carrot & the Watch
Book: Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
Author: Christopher Sandford
Date Read: Nov 26th
Task: MC - FN is the same as somebody from the Watch (C, A, D, C, or F)
How it Fits: Arthur

13. The Industrial Revolution Series
Book: Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be
Author: Joel McHale
Date Read: Nov 29th
Task: Title - a word from a Discworld Industrial Revolution title
How it Fits: Money

14. Moist von Lipwig
Book: Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health
Author: Jo Robinson
Date Read: Dec 1st
Task: Title - adjective
How it Fits: Wild is an adjective

15. Überwald
Book: Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself
Author: Matthew Turner
Date Read: Dec 5th
Task: Cover - mountains
How it Fits:

16. Death Series
Book: Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Soul Feeling Bad: Daily Steps to Spiritual Growth
Author: Sheldon B. Kopp
Date Read: Dec 6th
Task: Title - any word of 4 letters or more from the Discworld Death series titles in the title
How it Fits: Soul

17. Death
Book: The Great Peace: A Memoir
Author: Mena Suvari
Date Read: Dec 9th
Task: Char - loves cats
How it Fits: "We walked the narrow alleyways through Ravello on Italy’s Amalfi Coast and bought cans of tuna for the stray alley cats in Rome." p.141

18. Susan Sto-Helit
Book: Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple
Author: Warren G. Harris
Date Read: Dec 16th
Task: MC - grandchild of someone famous
How it Fits: "Desi's mother...was...the daughter of one of the founders of the company that made world-famous Bacardi rum." p.36

19. Lancre
Book: The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant: Twelve Keys to Successful Living
Author: Terry Felber
Date Read: Dec 17th
Task: Title - 'legend'
How it Fits: It's in the title

20. The Witches Series
Book: Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World
Author: Roman Alexander Krznaric
Date Read: Dec 19th
Task: Title - any word of 4 letters or more from the Discworld Witches series titles in the title
How it Fits: Carpe

21. Granny Weatherwax
Book: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism
Author: Pierre Novellie
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Task: Plot - char who defends others
How it Fits: "I made a habit of obsessively questioning rules I thought were unjust and intervening in bullying or social unfairness." p.109

22. Nanny Ogg & Magrat Garlick
Book: Remembering Whitney: My Story of Life, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
Author: Cissy Houston
Date Read: Dec 25th
Task: Cover - 2 people
How it Fits:

23. The Chalk
Book: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
Author: Robert A. Burton
Date Read: Dec 25th
Task: Cover - white
How it Fits: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

24. Tiffany Aching/Young Reader series
Book: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Date Read: Dec 26th
Task: Title - any word of 4 letters or more from the Discworld Tiffany Aching series titles in the title
How it Fits: Full

25. Tiffany Aching
Book: Walking the Border: A Journey Between Scotland and England
Author: Ian Crofton
Date Read: Dec 27th
Task: Char - Scottish
How it Fits: "The victorious Scots were commanded by Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde" p.36

✅ FLOAB - Black Diamond Read-a-thon

2/11: 1,797
Bruce Lee: A Biography - 38 - ⭐️⭐️
Build Your Dream Body: Breaking the Lies and Myths of the Fitness Industry So You Can Build Lean, Hard Muscle and Shred Fat Using Simple and Proven Techniques That Get Results - 41 - ⭐️⭐️
Chia Seeds Cheat Sheet - How To Survive & Thrive On The World's Most Powerful Seed - 34 - ⭐️
Dating Body Language Basics - 32 - ⭐️⭐️
Delicious Syrian Food - 32 - ⭐️⭐️
Discovering Your Talents - 15 - ⭐️⭐️
Don't let the money dry up: An entrepreneurs guide to multiple passive income streams - 18 - ⭐️⭐️
Eat More, Weigh Less: Learn the Simple Strategy to Dropping Pounds and Shredding Fat While Eating What You Want and Avoiding False Diets - 49 - ⭐️⭐️
Brain Training: Limitless Brain Training Strategies for Concentration, Mental Clarity, Memory Improvement, Neuroplasticity, and to Boost Overall Mind Power! - 34 - ⭐️⭐️
100 Quotations to Make You Think! - 22 - ⭐️
7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self - 180 - ⭐️⭐️
The Unusual Billionaires - 454 - ⭐️
Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home - 224 - ⭐️⭐️
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work - 384 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3/11: 2,142
Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 10 - 464 - ⭐️
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places - 296 - ⭐️⭐️
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East - 662 - ⭐️⭐️
Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle - 320 - ⭐️⭐️
Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines: How to Make Crazy Contraptions Using Everyday Stuff--Creative Kid-Powered Projects! - 160 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Better Boundaries: Owning and Treasuring Your Life - 240 - ⭐️⭐️

4/11: 1,242
A Life in Parts - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon - 266 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence - 176 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5/11: 1,215
In the Minds of Murderers: The Extraordinary Science of Criminal Profiling - 208 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook - 351 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything - 384 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6/11: 2,638
Enough - 141 - ⭐️⭐️
Spare - 410 - ⭐️⭐️
Tim― The Official Biography of Avicii - 320 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finding Me - 304 - ⭐️⭐️
The Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders - 1,200 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Year of Self-Care: Daily Practices and Inspiration for Caring for Yourself - 263 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7/11: 3,560
The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology) 2 Vol. Set - 1,200 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Happiest Man on Earth - 208 - ⭐️⭐️
Puerto Rico: A National History - 312 - ⭐️⭐️
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist - 276 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Office - 152 - ⭐️⭐️
A History of π, Petr Beckmann - 208 - ⭐️⭐️
Asimov's New Guide To Science, Isaac Asimov - 940 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8/11: 2,297
From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492 - 1969 - 608 - ⭐️⭐️
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion - 285 - ⭐️
Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life - 1,164 - ⭐️⭐️
Girl Wash your Face - 240 - ⭐️⭐️

9/11: 3,556
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People - 1,097 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good - 272 - ⭐️
Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print) - 952 - ⭐️
You're Never Weird on the Internet - 273 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Will - 418 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Anything Goes - 256 - ⭐️⭐️

10/11: 3,191
Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters - 238 - ⭐️⭐️
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons - 378 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Second Edition - 940 - ⭐️
Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface - 304 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Scrappy Little Nobody - 279 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion - 444 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - 352 - ⭐️⭐️

Cover - black

Cover - diamond

Cover - black diamond
- feathers

Total pages: 21,648

Total books: 63

TLC - Sadie Hawkins Spell Out

✅ Total: 86/86

Bachelors
B: 3/11 - Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines: How to Make Crazy Contraptions Using Everyday Stuff--Creative Kid-Powered Projects!, Paul Long - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 3/11 - Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle, Clint Edwards - ⭐️⭐️
C: 11/11 - Connie: A Memoir, Connie Chung - ⭐️⭐️
H: 4/11 - How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence, Nathaniel Branden - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 2/11 - Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work, Alex Bezzerides - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 1/11 - The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney, Richard A. Lertzman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 7/11 - Office, Sheila Liming - ⭐️⭐️
R: 8/11 - Girl Wash your Face, Rachel Hollis - ⭐️⭐️
S: 2/11 - 7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self, Swami Mukundananda - ⭐️⭐️

Dogpatch
D: 2/11 - Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being, Deepak Chopra - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 16/11 - The Optimal Dose: Restore Your Health With the Power of Vitamin D3, Judson Somerville MD - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 6/11 - The Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 7/11 - Puerto Rico: A National History - ⭐️⭐️
A: 4/11 - Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It, Burton L. Visotzky - ⭐️⭐️
T: 2/11 - This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home, New Scientist - ⭐️⭐️
C: 11/11 - Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, Clive James - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 5/11 - Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook, Miranda Corcoran - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hekzebiah Hawkins
H: 7/11 - The Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie Jaku - ⭐️⭐️
E: 6/11 - Enough, Jana Pittman - ⭐️⭐️
K: 15/11 - The Loneliest Polar Bear, Kale Williams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z: 6/11 - A Year of Self-Care: Daily Practices and Inspiration for Caring for Yourself, Dr. Zoe Shaw - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 9/11 - Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print), Wilson G. Pond - ⭐️
B: 3/11 - Better Boundaries: Owning and Treasuring Your Life, Jan Black - ⭐️⭐️
I: 5/11 - In the Minds of Murderers: The Extraordinary Science of Criminal Profiling, Paul Roland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 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 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 7/11 - A History of π, Petr Beckmann, Petr Beckmann - ⭐️⭐️
H: 10/11 - Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface, David Standish - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 7/11 - Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, Michael J. Fox - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
W: 8/11 - From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492 - 1969, Eric Williams - ⭐️⭐️
K: 17/11 - Yes, My Accent Is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You, Kunal Nayyar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 8/11 - Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life, Tim Ingold - ⭐️⭐️
N: 3/11 - A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places, Christopher Brown - ⭐️⭐️
S: 5/11 - Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses, Maureen Seaberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Li'l Abner
L: 4/11 - A Life in Parts, Bryan Cranston - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 10/11 - Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, Janet Reitman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 13/11 - American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era, Nico Lang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 7/11 - Asimov's New Guide To Science, Isaac Asimov - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 4/11 - Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, Steve Sheinkin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 4/11 - No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael J. Fox - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 12/11 - Electrical Diseases of the Heart: Genetics, Mechanisms, Treatment, Prevention, Ihor Gussak - ⭐️
R: 9/11 - Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, Tim Reiterman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

November
N: 15/11 - Nature's Architect: The beaver's return to our wild landscapes, Jim Crumley - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 17/11 - Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Bob Odenkirk - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 6/11 - Finding Me, Viola Davis - ⭐️⭐️
E: 13/11 - Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2 - ⭐️
M: 3/11 - Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 10, Ben McFarlane - ⭐️
B: 10/11 - Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Second Edition, Bob Becking - ⭐️
E: 14/11 - Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, Barbara A. Kerr - ⭐️⭐️
R: 13/11 - Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, Dimitris Xygalatas - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Old Man Mose
O: 20/11 - Overcoming Stress-Induced Brain Fog: 10 Simple Ways to Find Focus, Improve Memory, and Feel Grounded, Jill P. Weber - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 14/11 - Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me, Chelsea Handler - ⭐️⭐️
D; 13/11 - You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type, Daniel G. Amen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 12/11 - Biochemistry: The Chemical Reactions Of Living Cells, David E. Metzler - ⭐️⭐️
A: 7/11 - Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss, Claire Bidwell Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 15/11 - The Complete David Bowie: New Edition: Expanded and Updated, Nicholas Pegg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 12/11 - Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Steve Martin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 21/11 - Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity, Peter Attia - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 5/11 - The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything, Stephen M.R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 15/11 - Bears: Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, Erwin A. Bauer - ⭐️⭐️

Sadie Hawkins
S: 6/11 - Spare, Prince Harry - ⭐️⭐️
A: 8/11 - Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, Paul Bloom - ⭐️
D: 9/11 - You're Never Weird on the Internet, Felicia Day - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 10/11 - I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons, Kevin Hart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 16/11 - Ebb and Flow: How to Connect with the Patterns and Power of Water, Easkey Britton - ⭐️⭐️
H: 11/11 - Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy: The Heart of the Matter, Joseph Westfall - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 9/11 - Anything Goes, John Barrowman - ⭐️⭐️
W: 9/11 - Will, Will Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 20/11 - Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business, Kevin Kruse - ⭐️⭐️
I: 15/11 - Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After, Anna Wang Yuan - ⭐️⭐️
N: 18/11 - Beautifully Organized: A Guide to Function and Style in Your Home, Nikki Boyd - ⭐️⭐️
S: 10/11 - Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder, William Shatner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spinster
S: 10/11 - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom - ⭐️⭐️
P: 11/11 - Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy, Zazie Todd - ⭐️⭐️
I: 18/11 - It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn - ⭐️⭐️
N: 21/11 - Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 11/11 - The Simplest Gift, Stefanos Xenakis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 6/11 - Tim― The Official Biography of Avicii, Måns Mosesson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 17/11 - An Edge in the Kitchen: The Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Knives, Chad Ward - ⭐️⭐️
R: 14/11 - Magnify: Make Your Life Matter, Ron Malhotra - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Theresa
T: 9/11 - Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good, Kevin Smith - ⭐️
H: 14/11 - Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams, Michael D'Antonio - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 18/11 - Elements of Critical Thinking: A Fundamental Guide to Effective Decision Making, Deep Analysis, Intelligent Reasoning, and Independent Thinking, Albert Rutherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 15/11 - The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, Ruth Benedict - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 19/11 - Pageboy, Elliot Page - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 12/11 - The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, Sarah Silverman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 11/11 - Gothic Life: The Essential Guide to Macabre Style, Aurelio Voltaire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ TCF - Beat the Winter Blues

✅ Task 1

Book: Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being
Author: Deepak Chopra
Date Read: Nov 2nd
Task: Title - starts with a letter in HEARD
How it Fits: Title starts with D

Book: No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Author: Michael J. Fox
Date Read: Nov 4th
Task: Plot - MC has a pet dog
How it Fits: "my adoring family and a tail-wagging Gus, the Wonder Dog." p.99

✅ Task 2

Book: The Happiest Man on Earth
Author: Eddie Jaku
Date Read: Nov 7th
Task: Set - Europe
How it Fits: Germany

Book: Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman
Author: Tim Reiterman
Date Read: Nov 9th
Task: Plot - MC has a moment of indecision
How it Fits: "(Jim) appeared wracked with indecision." p.125

✅ Task 3

Book: Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
Author: Kevin Smith
Date Read: Nov 9th
Task: Plot - celebration
How it Fits: "a George Carlin celebration at the New York Public Library" p.170

Book: You're Never Weird on the Internet
Author: Felicia Day
Date Read: Nov 9th
Task: Cover - bright
How it Fits:

✅ Task 4

Book: Scrappy Little Nobody
Author: Anna Kendrick
Date Read: Nov 10th
Task: Title - starts with a letter in SPEAK
How it Fits: Title starts with S

Book: The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Author: Amy Schumer
Date Read: Nov 16th
Task: MC - has long hair
How it Fits:

✅ Task 5

Book: The Homeowner's Energy Handbook: Your Guide to Getting Off the Grid
Author: Paul Scheckel
Date Read: Nov 18th
Task: Author - initials in 'PAUSE'
How it Fits: PS

Book: Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
Author: Margaret Willson
Date Read: Nov 19th
Task: Set - island
How it Fits: "On this primarily volcanic island, earthquakes were—and are—fairly routine." p.25

✅ Task 6

Book: From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation
Author: Umberto Eco
Date Read: Nov 20th
Task: Plot - horse
How it Fits: "Boethius also singles out the whinny of the horse" p.211

Book: Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Author: Peter Attia
Date Read: Nov 21st
Task: Char - running for competition
How it Fits: "There are octogenarians, nonagenarians, and even centenarians right now who are running marathons" p.243

✅ Task 7

Book: Is This Autism?
Author: Donna Henderson
Date Read: Nov 21st
Task: Title - starts with a letter in VALID
How it Fits: I

Book: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Author: Nelson Mandela
Date Read: Nov 21st
Task: Cover - 5+ colours
How it Fits:

✅ Task 8

Book: Madrid: Midnight City
Author: Helen Crisp
Date Read: Nov 23rd
Task: Pages - '7'
Date Read: 272 pages

Book: Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
Author: Ann Shen
Date Read: Nov 24th
Task: Author - initials in MISTAKE
How it Fits: AS

✅ Task 9

Book: Autism and Eating Disorders in Teens: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Author: Fiona Fisher Bullivant
Date Read: Nov 26th
Task: Cover - lots of green
How it Fits:

Book: The Best Seat in the Universe
Author: Grahame Anderson
Date Read: Nov 26th
Task: Title - 'best'
How it Fits: It's in the title

✅ FLOAB - Richard's Celebration

✅ Movie Completed: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Trivia Book: The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology) 2 Vol. Set
Author: Anthony S. Mercatante
Date Read: Nov 7th
Pages: 1,200
Task: "honey" in the text
How it Fits: "When she saw the honey, she became so excited that she got stuck in the hollow tree." p.22

MC Book: Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Author: Michael J. Fox
Date Read: Nov 7th
Pages: 276
Task: Title - double vowels
How it Fits: lOOking

✅ Movie Completed: The Rescuers

Trivia Book: Gothic Life: The Essential Guide to Macabre Style
Author: Aurelio Voltaire
Date Read: Nov 11th
Task: Cover - skull
How it Fits:

MC Book: Anything Goes
Author: John Barrowman
Date Read: Nov 9th
Pages: 256
Task: Author - an initial is B
How it Fits: ALN starts with B

✅ Movie Completed: The Fox & the Hound

Trivia Book: Nature's Architect: The beaver's return to our wild landscapes
Author: Jim Crumley
Date Read: Nov 15th
Pages: 240
Task: Plot - a character hides from another character
How it Fits: "a Mull otter that tried to engage me in a game of hide-and-seek" p.80

MC Book: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Author: Sarah Silverman
Date Read: Nov 12th
Pages: 261
Task: Cover - orange
How it Fits:

✅ Movie Completed: The Black Cauldron

Trivia Book: What's Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions
Author: Paul C.W. Davies
Pages: 208
Date Read: Nov 18th
Task: Cover - black
How it Fits:

MC Book: Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Author: Grady Hendrix
Pages: 254
Date Read: Nov 16th
Task: Plot - pig
How it Fits: "devil pigs riding on the wings of 747s" p.150

✅ Movie Completed: Basil the Great Mouse Detective

Trivia Book: High Voltage: The Life of Angus Young, AC/DC's Last Man Standing
Author: Jeff Apter
Pages: 336
Date Read: Nov 19th
Task: Author - an initial in RATTIGAN
How it Fits: ALN starts with A

MC Book: Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Author: Steven Levingston
Pages: 528
Date Read: Nov 23rd
Task: Plot - 2 MCs who work together as partners
How it Fits: "King had played an instrumental role in Kennedy’s transformation." p.13

✅ Movie Completed: Oliver & Company

Trivia Book: Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work
Author: John Danaher
Pages: 323
Date Read: Nov 27th
Task: Cover - food
How it Fits:

MC Book: Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
Author: Ann Shen
Pages: 224
Date Read: Nov 24th
Task: Author - FN starts with a vowel
How it Fits: A

✅ Movie Completed: The Little Mermaid

Trivia Book: Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself
Author: Anneli Rufus
Pages: 290
Date Read: Nov 28th
Task: Title - starts with U
How it Fits: It does

MC Book: Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them
Author: Porter Fox
Pages: 275
Date Read: Nov 29th
Task: Cover - water
How it Fits:

✅ Movie Completed: The Rescuers Down Under

Trivia Book: Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Author: Joe Biden
Pages: 406
Date Read: Nov 30th
Task: Title - a word contains 3 vowels
How it Fits: prOmIsEs

MC Book: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
Author: Ben Mezrich
Pages: 272
Date Read: Nov 30th
Task: Title - starts with B
How it Fits: It does

✅ Movie Completed: Beauty & the Beast

Trivia Book: The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do
Author: Colin Tudge
Pages: 496
Date Read: Dec 1st
Task: Title - all the letters of ROSE
How it Fits: thE SecRet life Of birds

MC Book: The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Pages: 257
Date Read: Dec 1st
Task: Plot - char reads a book
How it Fits: "Beth stayed up for several hours reading the middle-game book" p.144

✅ Movie Completed: Aladdin

Trivia Book: Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough
Author: Mattie James
Pages: 257
Date Read: Dec 4th
Task: Title - all the letters of CAVE
How it Fits: EVeryday mAgiC

MC Book: Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria
Author: Max Siollun
Pages: 312
Date Read: Dec 2nd
Task: Pages - '3'
How it Fits: 312 pages

✅ Movie Completed: The Lion King

Trivia Book: The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
Author: Ross Douthat
Pages: 272
Date Read: Dec 5th
Task: Char - manipulative
How it Fits: "Bundy was a sociopath who delighted in spin and manipulation" p.109

MC Book: The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones
Author: Rich Cohen
Pages: 440
Date Read: Dec 5th
Task: Plot - char feels guilty about something
How it Fits: "Anita was ridden with survivor’s guilt." p.202

✅ Movie Completed: Pocahontas

Trivia Book: Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives
Author: E. Jay Gilbert
Pages: 320
Task: Char - grandmother
How it Fits: "In the Derwent Valley, Aiden’s grandmother said, you could barely move without bumping into a witch." p.72

MC Book: The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy
Author: Bret W. Davis
Pages: 848
Date Read: Dec 6th
Task: Title - starts with a letter in POCAHONTAS
How it Fits: Title starts with O

✅ Movie Completed: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Trivia Book: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World
Author: Judika Illes
Pages: 1,877
Date Read: Dec 7th
Task: Title - 3 words
How it Fits: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft = 3 words

MC Book: The Book Of Tells
Author: peter-collett
Pages: 400
Date Read: Dec 10th
Task: Title - all the letters of BELL
How it Fits: the Book of tELLs

✅ Movie Completed: Hercules

Trivia Book: Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire
Author: Stacy A. Cordery
Pages: 512
Date Read: Dec 12th
Task: MC - strong female
How it Fits: "she had been spending time ... in a circle of strong, independent women" p.163

MC Book: Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt
Author: Joyce A. Tyldesley
Pages: 397
Date Read: Dec 12th
Task: Tagged - mythology
How it Fits: MPG mythology

✅ Movie Completed: Mulan

Trivia Book: Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks
Author: Persi Diaconis
Pages: 264
Date Read: Dec 13th
Task: Cover - something red
How it Fits: - playing cards

MC Book: China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
Author: Kay Ann Johnson
Pages: 233
Date Read: Dec 14th
Task: Set - Asia
How it Fits: China

✅ Movie Completed: Tarzan

Trivia Book: 1000 Ways to Ask Why: Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking
Author: Emily LeQuesne
Pages: 250
Date Read: Dec 15th
Task: Author - 'q'
How it Fits: Emily leQuesne

MC Book: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners
Author: Laurent A. Daloz
Pages: 320
Task: Title - 6 letter word
How it Fits: Mentor = 6 letters

✅ Movie Completed: Fantasia 2000

Trivia Book: A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter
Author: Andrew Hui
Pages: 273
Date Read: Dec 19th
Task: Cover - blue
How it Fits:

MC Book: Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
Author: Jane Robinson
Pages: 400
Date Read: Dec 18th
Task: Cover - hat
How it Fits:

✅ Movie Completed: Dinosaur

Trivia Book: A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
Author: Robert Hass
Pages: 464
Date Read: Dec 20th
Task: Cover - something red
How it Fits:

MC Book: The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
Author: David S. Landes
Pages: 585
Date Read: Dec 20th
Task: Plot - char works to help their family
How it Fits: "the Egibi family rose from junior partners to large financial entrepreneurs" p.114

✅ Movie Completed: The Emperor's New Groove

Trivia Book: Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
Author: Dan Slater
Pages: 353
Date Read: Dec 22nd
Task: Cover - green text
How it Fits:

MC Book: The Billionaire and The Monk: An Inspirational Story About Finding Extraordinary Happiness
Author: Vibhor Kumar Singh
Pages: 114
Date Read: Dec 21st
Task: MC - rich
How it Fits: An MC is a billionaire

✅ HOB - Spotlight AM: Richard

✅ Book 68 - Pegasus in Space
Book: You're Never Weird on the Internet
Author: Felicia Day
Date Read: Nov 9th
Task: Title - letters of TALENTED
How it Fits: you'rE NEver weirD on The inTernet (ALmost)

✅ Book 69 - Catalyst
Book: Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy
Author: Zazie Todd
Date Read: Nov 11th
Task: Cover - cat
How it Fits:

✅ Book 70 - Catacombs
Book: Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Second Edition
Author: Bob Becking
Date Read: Nov 10th
Task: Plot - someone is exiled
How it Fits: "the exile of the god Chemosh" p.229

✅ Book 71 - The Rowan
Book: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Author: Steve Martin
Date Read: Nov 12th
Task: Tagged - family
How it Fits: Tagged x 9

✅ Book 72 - Damia
Book: Biochemistry: The Chemical Reactions Of Living Cells
Author: David E. Metzler
Date Read: Nov 12th
Task: Author - FN & LN in DAMIA
How it Fits: DM

✅ Book 73 - Damia's Children
Book: Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Author: Rob Lowe
Date Read: Nov 22nd
Task: Title - all the letters of MRDINIS
How it Fits: StoRes I oNly tell My frIenDs

✅ Book 74 - Lyon's Pride
Book: Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror
Author: Richard G. Robbins
Date Read: Nov 25th
Task: Title - all the letters of HIVE
How it Fits: oVertakEn by tHe nIght

✅ Book 75 - The Tower and the Hive
Book: Madrid: Midnight City
Author: Helen Crisp
Date Read: Nov 23rd
Task: Title - starts with a letter in MRDINI
How it Fits: M

✅ Book 76 - Restoree
Book: Life's That Way
Author: Jim Beaver
Date Read: Nov 23rd
Task: Char - nurse
How it Fits: "Zully, the fill-in nanny, who was trained as a nurse" p.88

✅ Book 77 - The Mark of Merlin
Book: Scheisse! The Real German You Were Never Taught in School
Author: Gertrude Besserwisser
Date Read: Nov 27th
Task: Cover - dog
How it Fits:

✅ Book 78 - Stitch in Snow
Book: Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
Author: Christopher Sandford
Date Read: Nov 26th
Task: MC - author
How it Fits: Arthur Conan Doyle

✅ Book 79 - The Year of the Lucy
Book: Bibliotherapy: Books to Guide You Through Every Chapter of Life
Author: Molly Masters
Date Read: Nov 27th
Task: Author - initials are MM
How it Fits: Molly Masters

✅ Book 80 - The Lady
Book: It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944
Author: Francois Eliet
Date Read: Dec 1st
Task: Cover - horse
How it Fits:

✅ Book 81 - An Exchange of Gifts
Book: Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
Author: David Baldwin
Date Read: Nov 29th
Task: Char - princess
How it Fits: "Henry VIII’s daughter Princess Mary" p.16

✅ Book 82 - No One Noticed The Cat
Book: The Unity of Science: Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century
Author: Irwin Shapiro
Date Read: Nov 29th
Task: Author - initials in YASMIN
How it Fits: IS

✅ Book 83 - If Wishes Were Horses
Book: The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing
Author: David Kahn
Date Read: Dec 3rd
Task: Tagged - war
How it Fits: x6

✅ Book 84 - Black Horses for the King
Book: Madrid: A New Biography
Author: Luke Stegemann
Date Read: Dec 2nd
Task: Plot - battle scene
How it Fits: "A Mozarabic rebellion in Tulaytulah in 854 led to the Battle of Guadalecete" p.54

✅ HOB - 2024: I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie

500+ pages, from Jan to Dec (no cookbooks)

Total books: 135 + 59 = 194
Total: pages: 116,870 + 55,746 = 172,816

136. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology) 2 Vol. Set - 1,200
137. Asimov's New Guide To Science - 940
138. Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman - 1,097
139. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life - 1,164
140. From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492 - 1969 - 608
141. Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print) - 952
142. Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Second Edition - 960
143. Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time - 1,104
144. Electrical Diseases of the Heart: Genetics, Mechanisms, Treatment, Prevention - 850
145. Biochemistry: The Chemical Reactions Of Living Cells - 1,164
146. Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2 - 1,111
147. The Complete David Bowie: New Edition: Expanded and Updated - 2,013
148. FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition - 804
149. The World's Great Speeches - 944
150. Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya - 528
151. Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology: Fermentation, Biocatalysis and Bioseparation, 5 Volume Set - 2,798
152. From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation - 640
153. Life - 576
154. My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith - 512
155. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela - 638
156. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success - 528
157. All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson - 512
158. Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights - 528
159. Moon Maine - 1,271
160. Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror - 584
161. Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters: Compelling Evidence of the Incursion of Giants, Their Extraordinary Technology, and Imminent Return - 504
162. Anna Karenina - 1,235
163. Pakistan: A Hard Country - 609
164. The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies. The Ultimate A-Z of Ancient Mysteries, Lost Civilizations and Forgotten Wisdom - 576
165. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry - 1,755
166. Dictionary of Contemporary Slang - 510
167. The Works of Niccolò Machiavelli - 1,035
168. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - 1,011
169. The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing - 1,164
170. Universe or Multiverse? - 536
171. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy - 848
172. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World - 1,877
173. The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume - 690
174. Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire - 512
175. Lonely Planet Greece - 2,115
176. Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography - 840
177. Judy: The Life, Legend, and Tragedy of an American Icon - 645
178. Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II - 592
179. Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year - 544
180. The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet - 2,193
181. Endless Highway - 647
182. Lonely Planet Australia - 2,384
183. 1001 Inventions That Changed the World - 960
184. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe - 512
185. The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times - 585
186. Lonely Planet Germany, Austria & Switzerland's Best Trips - 849
187. Introduction to Clinical Psychology - 530
188. Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track - 648
189. Sugar: A Bittersweet History - 538
190. The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science - 543
191. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness - 722
192. Scotland Yard: A Bloody History - 557
193. Einstein's Beets - 792
194. Etymological Dictionary of Greek (2 Vols.) (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary) - 1,862

CCC - Inventions That Changed the World

✅ Total: 37/37

Cover - fire
28/11 - , John Michael Greer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Plot - a tight knit group of friends
13/11 - American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era, Nico Lang - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"'Sex and the City' is the platonic ideal of her New York fantasy, where men are in endless supply and friends are forever." p.88

Series - 2 books with an overarching plot
1: 21/11 - Is This Autism?, Donna Henderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2: 26/11 - Autism and Eating Disorders in Teens: A Guide for Parents and Professionals, Fiona Fisher Bullivant - ⭐️⭐️

Cover - famous architecture
19/11 - , William Carlsen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cover - Colosseum
10/12 - , David Stone Potter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cover - pyramids
2/12 - , Amber Share - ⭐️

Title - 2 words that go together: Homeowner
18/11 - The Homeowner's Energy Handbook: Your Guide to Getting Off the Grid, Paul Scheckel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Title - word 1: Home
6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness, Hana Ali - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Title - word 2: Owner
14/12 - The Owner's Manual to Life: Simple Strategies to Worry Less and Enjoy Life More, Michael Zajaczkowski - ⭐️⭐️

Cover - stars
12/12 - , Emma Howarth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Set - China
15/11 - Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After, Anna Wang Yuan - ⭐️⭐️

Plot - WWI
24/11 - Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War, Heather Sheard - ⭐️⭐️

Plot - an explosive is used
23/11 - Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights, Steven Levingston - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a stick of dynamite against my house" p.70

GR - translated into English
17/11 - Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator, Benjamin Brose - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
23 translators involved to create this book

Cover - optical instrument
14/11 - - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Magnifying glass

Physical book
13/11 - How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love, Logan Ury - ⭐️⭐️

Genre - NF
13/11 - You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type, Daniel G. Amen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Notice what you like about others more than what you don't."

Cover - kitchen
18/11 - , Nikki Boyd - ⭐️⭐️

MC - baker
16/11 - Doughnut: A Global History, Heather Delancey Hunwick - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Adolph Levitt, then part-owner of a New York bakery chain" p.60

Char - owns milking cows
27/11 - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy - ⭐️⭐️
"the cows began giving milk" p.459

Pages - 501+ ebook
13/11 - Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2 - ⭐️
1,111 pages

MC - parent
21/11 - Life, Keith Richards - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Keith Richards: "my daughter Angela" p.32

Authors - 3+
1: 18/11 - The World's Great Speeches, Lewis Copeland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2: 1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
3: 7/12 - Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism, Elizabeth Bartmess - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4: 13/12 - Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, Paul Corupe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

MC - disabled in some way
28/11 - Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself, Anneli Rufus - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"my pelvis had only the shallowest of hip sockets. Without medical intervention, I would be disabled for life." p.67

Cover - telephone
3/12 - , Brit Barron - ⭐️⭐️

Cover - artificial light
4/12 - , Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️

Author - an initial is X
13/11 - Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, Dimitris Xygalatas - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cover - man-made flying object
10/12 - , Seth Meyerowitz - ⭐️⭐️

Plot - zombies
16/11 - Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, Grady Hendrix - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Venus flytraps turning you into a murderous zombie" p.140

MC - doctor
18/11 - It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn - ⭐️⭐️
"I entered the world of psychology. Both as a student and then as a clinician" p.18

MC - bartender
11/12 - The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique, Jeffrey Morgenthaler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Plot - modern warfare
16/11 - FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition, Jeremy Griffith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"all-out atomic bomb attack" p.400

Plot - secret agency
23/11 - Madrid: Midnight City, Helen Crisp - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"secret police headquarters during the Franco dictatorship" p.29

✅ HOB - Arrows of Fortune

Space 3
2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Space 4
4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition - ⭐️⭐️

Space 9
5/12 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Space 34
5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Space 38
7/12 - Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Space 39
11/12 - MLA Handbook, The Modern Language Association of America - ⭐️

Space 42
15/12 - 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half, Stephen R. Bown - ⭐️⭐️

Space 48
17/12 - Lonely Planet Australia, Lonely Planet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Space 54
19/12 - A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter, Andrew Hui - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Space 57
20/12 - History of Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History, Captivating History - ⭐️⭐️

Space 59
23/12 - How To Not Work Forever: Start Investing and Build a Life You Love, Natasha Etschmann - ⭐️⭐️

Space 63
24/12 - Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson, Paul French - ⭐️⭐️

Space 67
26/12 - The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science, Philip Ball - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Space 69
28/12 - Einstein's Beets, Alexander Theroux - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Space 72
31/12 - Saffron: A Global History, Ramin Ganeshram - ⭐️⭐️

LSC - Unusual Place Names: Colorado

✅ Total: 174/174

✅ Part 1: 57/57

Arriba
A: 13/12 - Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 18/12 - Approaching Disability: Critical issues and perspectives by Mallett Rebecca Runswick-Cole Katherine (2014-06-25) Paperback - ⭐️⭐️
R: 16/12 - Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 15/12 - Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information, Itamar Simonson - ⭐️⭐️
B: 24/11 - Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 13/12 - The True History of Merlin the Magician, Anne Lawrence-Mathers - ⭐️⭐️

Bow Mar
B: 16/11 - The Brain Warrior's Way: Ignite Your Energy and Focus, Attack Illness and Aging, Transform Pain into Purpose - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/12 - One Day Smarter: Hilarious, Random Information to Uplift and Inspire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
W: 16/12 - The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 23/11 - Madrid: Midnight City - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 10/12 - Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption, Jean-Philippe Aumasson - ⭐️⭐️
R: 15/12 - Anxiety Rx: A Revolutionary New Prescription for Anxiety Relief―from the Doctor Who Created It, Russell Kennedy - ⭐️⭐️

Castle Rock
C: 26/11 - Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 8/12 - After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon - ⭐️⭐️
S: 25/11 - Shopping Mall - ⭐️⭐️
T: 30/11 - Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Tony Thorne - ⭐️⭐️
L: 6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️
E: 15/12 - 1000 Ways to Ask Why: Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking, Emily LeQuesne - ⭐️⭐️
R: 14/12 - Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut - ⭐️⭐️
O: 25/12 - Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love - ⭐️⭐️
C: 26/11 - Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, Christopher Sandford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 29/11 - With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial, Kathryn Mannix - ⭐️⭐️

Climax
C: 24/11 - Concentration: Maintain Laser Sharp Focus and Attention for Stretches of 5 Hours or More - ⭐️⭐️
L: 2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 4/12 - It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF - ⭐️⭐️
M: 21/11 - My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️
X: 17/11 - Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Crook
C: 22/11 - Change Your Food, Change Your Mood: A Nutrition-Based Approach to Reducing Stress, Banishing the Blues, and Feeling Great - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 12/12 - Lonely Planet Greece, Simon Richmond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/12 - Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/12 - Open, Honest, and Direct: A Guide to Unlocking Your Team's Potential - ⭐️⭐️
K: 24/11 - How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days, Kari Leibowitz - ⭐️⭐️

Del Norte
D: 15/12 - Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 13/12 - Explaining Life Through Evolution - ⭐️⭐️
L: 27/11 - The Lost World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 22/12 - No Apologies: Ditch Diet Culture and Rebuild Your Relationship with Food - ⭐️⭐️
O: 25/12 - On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 7/12 - Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Richard E. Cytowic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 29/11 - Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 12/12 - A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again, Emma Howarth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dinosaur
D: 14/12 - Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns - ⭐️⭐️
I: 2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 22/12 - Unlocking Spanish with Paul Noble: Your key to language success, Paul Noble - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 23/12 - Overcoming Imposter Anxiety: Move Beyond Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt to Embrace Your Worthy, Capable Self - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 25/11 - Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 23/11 - Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House - ⭐️⭐️
R: 5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fairplay
F: 16/11 - F*ck Being Humble - ⭐️⭐️
A: 3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944 - ⭐️⭐️
R: 5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 19/11 - Pageboy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 26/11 - Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, Josh Levine - ⭐️⭐️
A: 2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
Y: 20/12 - Yinsights: A Journey Into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga - ⭐️⭐️

LSC - Unusual Place Names: Colorado

✅ Part 2: 58/58

Hygiene
H: 18/11 - The Homeowner's Energy Handbook: Your Guide to Getting Off the Grid - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition - ⭐️⭐️
G: 16/11 - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo - ⭐️⭐️
I: 29/11 - The Unity of Science: Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century, Irwin Shapiro - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 21/12 - No Worries: A Guide to Releasing Anxiety and Worry Using CBT - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 11/12 - The Most Interesting Book in the World, Edward Brooke-Hitching - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Last Chance
L: 24/11 - The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening, Laurie J. Cameron - ⭐️⭐️
A: 28/11 - Pakistan: A Hard Country, Anatol Lieven - ⭐️⭐️
S: 14/12 - Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 25/11 - Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 21/11 - Creating Affluence : The A-Z Guide to a Richer Life - ⭐️⭐️
H: 15/12 - A History of English Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 28/11 - Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself, Anneli Rufus - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 21/12 - No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 21/11 - Choose to Win: Transform Your Life, One Simple Choice at a Time - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 7/12 - Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism, Elizabeth Bartmess - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Leadville
L: 23/11 - Life's That Way - ⭐️⭐️
E: 7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 28/11 - The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages - ⭐️⭐️
D: 5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success - ⭐️⭐️
V: 20/12 - The Vocabulary Builder Workbook: Simple Lessons and Activities to Teach Yourself Over 1,400 Must-Know Words - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 24/11 - The Impostor Phenomenon: Overcoming the Fear That Haunts Your Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 22/11 - The Little Book of Slow: Live Mindfully and Enjoy the Simple Things - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 22/11 - Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives, E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️

Loveland
L: 21/11 - Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 21/12 - Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
E: 4/12 - Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough - ⭐️⭐️
L: 21/11 - Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/11 - Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership - ⭐️⭐️
N: 12/12 - Do It! Speaking: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise, David Newman - ⭐️⭐️
D: 5/12 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, David Deutsch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Manzanola
M: 19/11 - Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain, Margaret Willson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/11 - 101 Ways to Really Satisfy Your Customers: How to Keep Your Customers and Attract New Ones, Andrew Griffiths - ⭐️⭐️
N: 11/12 - The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - ⭐️⭐️
Z: 20/12 - The Zürau Aphorisms - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/11 - Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work - ⭐️⭐️
N: 6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand - ⭐️⭐️
O: 19/12 - Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests - ⭐️⭐️
L: 21/11 - The Life Audit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering Your Goals and Building the Life You Want - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 27/11 - Anna Karenina - ⭐️⭐️

Nederland
N: 30/11 - North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail - ⭐️⭐️
E: 1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 3/12 - Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love - ⭐️⭐️
E: 30/11 - The Evolution of Technology - ⭐️⭐️
R: 3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
L: 17/11 - 101 Ways to Improve Customer Service: Training, Tools, Tips, and Techniques, Lorraine L. Ukens - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 26/11 - The Best Seat in the Universe, Grahame Anderson - ⭐️⭐️
N: 30/11 - The Works of Niccolò Machiavelli, Niccolò Machiavelli - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 29/11 - Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors, David Baldwin - ⭐️⭐️

No Name
N: 25/11 - The Perfect Mile: The Race to Break the Four Minute Mile, Neal Bascomb - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 19/12 - Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation, Jim O’Heir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 24/11 - Moon Maine - ⭐️⭐️
A: 26/11 - Autism and Eating Disorders in Teens: A Guide for Parents and Professionals - ⭐️⭐️
M: 17/11 - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 28/11 - The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies. The Ultimate A-Z of Ancient Mysteries, Lost Civilizations and Forgotten Wisdom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

LSC - Unusual Place Names: Colorado

✅ Part 3: 59/59

Old Roach
O: 14/12 - The Owner's Manual to Life: Simple Strategies to Worry Less and Enjoy Life More - ⭐️⭐️
L: 16/11 - Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too! - ⭐️⭐️
D: 28/11 - Halloween: The Essential Guide to Halloween, Halloween safety tips ,save kids, Halloween costumes, all what you need to happy Halloween and Family Fun, Walid Djw - ⭐️
R: 26/11 - Big Money Energy: How to Rule at Work, Dominate at Life, and Make Millions, Ryan Serhant - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 14/12 - A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road, James Oseland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 24/11 - American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 17/11 - Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 15/11 - Handmade Gifts from the Kitchen: More than 100 Culinary Inspired Presents to Make and Bake: A Baking Book - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ouray
O: 11/12 - Oranges: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️
U: 20/11 - From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation, Umberto Eco - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 25/11 - Refuse to Do Nothing: Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery - ⭐️⭐️
A: 22/11 - All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 25/11 - Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21s t Century - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Rico
R: 23/11 - Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America's Failed War on Drugs, Ryan Hampton - ⭐️⭐️
I: 21/11 - Is This Autism? - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 19/11 - Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya, William Carlsen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sinbad
S: 24/11 - Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War, Heather Sheard - ⭐️⭐️
I: 18/11 - It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle - ⭐️⭐️
N: 18/11 - Beautifully Organized: A Guide to Function and Style in Your Home, Nikki Boyd - ⭐️⭐️
B: 15/11 - Back and Neck Health: Mayo Clinic Guide to Treating and Preventing Back and Neck Pain - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 19/11 - High Voltage: The Life of Angus Young, AC/DC's Last Man Standing, Jeff Apter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 18/11 - What's Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions, Paul C.W. Davies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spook City
S: 24/11 - The Secret History of Wonder Woman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
P: 16/11 - Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 29/11 - Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry - ⭐️⭐️
O: 26/11 - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 20/11 - Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business, Kevin Kruse - ⭐️⭐️
C: 15/11 - The Complete David Bowie: New Edition: Expanded and Updated - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 15/11 - Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After - ⭐️⭐️
T: 25/11 - Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters: Compelling Evidence of the Incursion of Giants, Their Extraordinary Technology, and Imminent Return, Thomas Horn - ⭐️
Y: 17/11 - Yes, My Accent Is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Stoner
S: 22/11 - Stories I Only Tell My Friends - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 23/11 - This Book Will Blow Your Mind - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/11 - Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 15/11 - Nature's Architect: The beaver's return to our wild landscapes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 24/11 - The Ego-Less SELF: Achieving Peace & Tranquility Beyond All Understanding - ⭐️⭐️
R: 22/11 - The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Troublesome
T: 22/11 - They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty - ⭐️⭐️
R: 21/11 - Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 23/11 - Wasteland, Oliver Franklin-Wallis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 19/11 - Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 15/11 - Bears: Behavior, Ecology, Conservation - ⭐️⭐️
L: 15/11 - The Loneliest Polar Bear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 20/11 - Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology: Fermentation, Biocatalysis and Bioseparation, 5 Volume Set - ⭐️⭐️
S: 22/11 - Hamlet, William Shakespeare - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 21/11 - Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 16/11 - The Middle Finger Project: Trash Your Imposter Syndrome and Live the Unf*ckwithable Life You Deserve - ⭐️⭐️
E: 18/11 - Elements of Critical Thinking: A Fundamental Guide to Effective Decision Making, Deep Analysis, Intelligent Reasoning, and Independent Thinking - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Woody Creek
W: 18/11 - The World's Great Speeches - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 20/11 - Overcoming Stress-Induced Brain Fog: 10 Simple Ways to Find Focus, Improve Memory, and Feel Grounded - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 16/11 - The Optimal Dose: Restore Your Health With the Power of Vitamin D3, Judson Somerville MD - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 16/11 - Doughnut: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 16/11 - You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 15/11 - The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 17/11 - The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley - ⭐️⭐️
E: 17/11 - An Edge in the Kitchen: The Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Knives - ⭐️⭐️
E: 16/11 - Ebb and Flow: How to Connect with the Patterns and Power of Water - ⭐️⭐️
K: 23/11 - Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

CCC - World's Strangest Festivals

✅ Total: 43/43

1. Cover - musical instrument
19/11 - , Jeff Apter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Set - 17th century
22/11 - They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty, John G. Turner - ⭐️⭐️

3. Title - every vowel
16/11 - You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth, Jen Sincero - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Plot - char covered in mud
16/11 - Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, Grady Hendrix - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"corpses of civil rights workers were hauled out of the MIssissippi mud" p.15

5. Title - starts with B
24/11 - Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, Ann Shen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Title - ends with G
17/11 - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. Title - verb that ends with 'ing'
25/11 - Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters: Compelling Evidence of the Incursion of Giants, Their Extraordinary Technology, and Imminent Return, Thomas Horn - ⭐️
Unearthing

8. Plot - goods are traded
19/11 - Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain, Margaret Willson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"traded his butter for 'brennivín', a popular Danish imported schnapps" p.38

9. Plot - char has major transformation
19/11 - Pageboy, Elliot Page - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Top gender surgery

10. Plot - char suffers extreme injury
19/11 - Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya, William Carlsen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Stephens fell from his mule and severely injured his back" p.404

11. Title - all letters of CHEESE
18/11 - The World's Great Speeches, Lewis Copeland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

12. Set - Asia
17/11 - Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator, Benjamin Brose - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

13. MC - Asian
6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Prince Regent Shōtoku...was the first Japanese philosopher." p.126

14. MC - works in food-related business
25/11 - Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Michael Moss - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Michael Moss: Food industry investigator

15. Plot - natural disaster
29/11 - Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them, Porter Fox - ⭐️⭐️
Superstorm

16. Set - major holiday
28/11 - Pakistan: A Hard Country, Anatol Lieven - ⭐️⭐️
"the holiday which marks the festival of Moharram" p.284

17. Char - parent to a baby
18/11 - It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn - ⭐️⭐️
"While nursing her newborn baby girl, Evelyn accidentally fell asleep" p.153

18. Cover - workshop tool
30/11 - , George Basalla - ⭐️⭐️

19. Plot - MC acts strangely
22/11 - Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, Russ Buettner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"As the women finished, he disappeared without saying goodbye. Strange, Ivana thought." p.170

20. Title - all words start with a letter in FLAMING TAR BARRELS
16/11 - Ebb and Flow: How to Connect with the Patterns and Power of Water, Easkey Britton - ⭐️⭐️
EAF

21. Plot - a dog plays a prominent role in the story
6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir, John Cook - ⭐️⭐️
"The chooks and dogs were all shivering away, and poor Stinky was vomiting." p.26

22. Author - both initials are the same
16/11 - F*ck Being Humble, Stefanie Sword-Williams - ⭐️⭐️

23. Set - winter
24/11 - How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days, Kari Leibowitz - ⭐️⭐️

24. Cover - orange
17/11 - , Chad Ward - ⭐️⭐️

25. Set - Italy
28/11 - The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages, James T. Palmer - ⭐️⭐️
"driving him into exile in Italy." p.59

26. MC - works in a pub
27/11 - Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys, Joe Coulombe - ⭐️⭐️
"an autumn afternoon in 1965, in a bar where Trader Joe’s was not so much born as extruded." p.21

27. Cover - small watercraft
10/12 - , Domonique Bertolucci - ⭐️⭐️

28. MPG - health
16/11 - The Optimal Dose: Restore Your Health With the Power of Vitamin D3, Judson Somerville MD - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

29. MPG - humour
16/11 - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy Schumer - ⭐️⭐️

30. MC - works in movies
16/11 - Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!, Chelsea Handler - ⭐️⭐️
Actress

31. Set - location starting with a letter in OAXACA
21/11 - Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Africa

32. Cover - pink
27/11 - , John Danaher - ⭐️⭐️

33. Title - all words start with a letter in LA TOMATINA
21/11 - The Life Audit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering Your Goals and Building the Life You Want, Ximena Vengoechea - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

34. Cover - common zoo animal
25/11 - , Marc Schoen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

35. Set - island
26/11 - Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"this island formed a protected sanctuary" p.16

36. Cover - night sky
6/12 - , E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️

37. Published - Oct
20/11 - Overcoming Stress-Induced Brain Fog: 10 Simple Ways to Find Focus, Improve Memory, and Feel Grounded, Jill P. Weber - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

38. MC - married for whole book
25/11 - Refuse to Do Nothing: Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery, Shayne Moore - ⭐️⭐️

39. Plot - physical competition
21/11 - Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity, Peter Attia - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"There are octogenarians, nonagenarians, and even centenarians right now who are running marathons" p.243

40. Author - initials in WORLD NOMAD
18/11 - Elements of Critical Thinking: A Fundamental Guide to Effective Decision Making, Deep Analysis, Intelligent Reasoning, and Independent Thinking, Albert Rutherford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

41. Cover - at least 1 bare foot with toes
2/12 - , J.D. Swanson - ⭐️⭐️

42. Published - 2003-2009
17/11 - 101 Ways to Improve Customer Service: Training, Tools, Tips, and Techniques, Lorraine L. Ukens - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2007

43. Title - compound word
18/11 - The Homeowner's Energy Handbook: Your Guide to Getting Off the Grid, Paul Scheckel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Home Owner

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✅ TOAP - Richard's Holiday Screening Room

0. Start
Book: The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Date Read: Dec 1st
Task: A book that has been made into a movie
How it Fits: It was turned into a mini-series on Netflix

1. It's a Wonderful Life
Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Date Read: Dec 1st
Task: a book you think was wonderful
How it Fits: It's a 5-star read for me & I read it every year.

2. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Book: Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love
Author: Brit Barron
Date Read: Dec 3rd
Task: Title - starts with a letter in RUDOLPH
How it Fits: Title starts with D

3. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Book: Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment
Author: Stephen Flavall
Date Read: Dec 4th
Task: Title - 4 words
How it Fits: Before We Go Live = 4 words

4. A Christmas Carol
Book: Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives
Author: E. Jay Gilbert
Date Read: Dec 6th
Task: Char - ghost
How it Fits: "ghost of Anne Boleyn" p.41

5. Die Hard
Book: Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
Author: Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Date Read: Dec 10th
Task: A book that is part of a series
How it Fits: 2nd edition

6. Miracle on 34th Street
Book: The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
Author: Gwen Strauss
Date Read: Dec 11th
Task: Title - number
How it Fits: Nine

7. A Christmas Story
Book: Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt
Author: Joyce A. Tyldesley
Date Read: Dec 12th
Task: Plot - someone receives a gift
How it Fits: "the queen sent me a personal gift of five fine linen garments" p.267

8. Elf
Book: Judy: The Life, Legend, and Tragedy of an American Icon
Author: Gerold Frank
Date Read: Dec 13th
Task: Title - 1 word
How it Fits: Judy = 1 word

9. Bad Santa
Book: Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
Author: Abbott Kahler
Date Read: Dec 14th
Task: Char - criminal
How it Fits: "the woman’s a criminal" p.162

10. Home Alone
Book: The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Author: Shane Parrish
Date Read: Dec 17th
Task: A book that is part of a series
How it Fits: Vol 1

11. A Charlie Brown Christmas
Book: Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
Author: Jim O’Heir
Date Read: Dec 19th
Task: MC - well-known
How it Fits: Amy Poehler

12. Scrooged
Book: Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness
Author: Bill Bailey
Date Read: Dec 21st
Task: Author - Bill
How it Fits: AFN is Bill

13. Frosty the Snowman
Book: Leading Consciously: A Pilgrimage Toward Self-Mastery
Author: Debashis Chatterjee
Date Read: Dec 22nd
Task: Cover - snow
How it Fits:

14. The Santa Clause
Book: American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood
Author: Marc Eliot
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Task: MC - father
How it Fits: "he fathered a child out of wedlock" p.15

15. Trading Places
Book: Overcoming Imposter Anxiety: Move Beyond Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt to Embrace Your Worthy, Capable Self
Author: Ijeoma Nwaogu
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Task: Standalone
How it Fits: Not in a series

16. The Nightmare Before Christmas
Book: Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
Author: Paul French
Date Read: Dec 24th
Task: Cover - black
How it Fits:

17. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Book: Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living
Author: Holly Trantham
Date Read: Dec 25th
Task: Cover - green
How it Fits:

18. The Polar Express
Book: Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners
Author: Alan J. K. Sanders
Date Read: Dec 27th
Task: Pages - ending in 2, 0, or 4
How it Fits: 352 pages

19. White Christmas
Book: LOST: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to The Classic TV Series
Author: Emily St. James
Date Read: Dec 27th
Task: Chars - ensemble cast
How it Fits: The book includes all the MCs of Lost, which is a lot of people

20. Love Actually
Book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: Dec 28th
Task: A book that is part of a series
How it Fits: 3rd in a series

21. The Year Without Santa Claus
Book: Magnetic Marketing: How To Attract A Flood Of New Customers That Pay, Stay, and Refer
Author: Dan S. Kennedy
Date Read: Dec 29th
Task: Title - alliteration
How it Fits: MM

22. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Book: Troll Culture: A Comprehensive Guide
Author: Stefan Krappitz
Date Read: Dec 30th
Task: Title - starts with a letter in SANTA CLAUS
How it Fits: T

HOB - Birth Flower Individual Challenge: December

✅ Total: 35/35

1. Title - all the letters of NARCISSUS
1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️

2. Published - December
5/12 - Gratitude: A Daily Journal, Jack Canfield - ⭐️
December 4, 2007

3. Cover - white/yellow
3/12 - , Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️

4. Set - Greece
12/12 - Lonely Planet Greece, Simon Richmond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Plot - Greek culture
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the classical Greek era, distinctions were drawn between types of magic." p.701

6. Plot - char undergoes significant self-discovery
5/12 - Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself, Matthew Turner - ⭐️⭐️
"I feel enlightened. I’ve discovered so much about myself." p.160

7. Plot - Greek mythology
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Zeus, the king of the gods, was, as usual, having an affair with a mortal" p.48

8. Plot - scent plays a big role
8/12 - The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️

9. Char - works in beauty industry
12/12 - Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire, Stacy A. Cordery - ⭐️⭐️

10. Plot - char starts a new chapter in their life
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 - ⭐️⭐️
"just as we go through different chapters in life, our vision does the same and we need to adjust along with it." p.40

11. Set - spring
11/12 - Oranges: A Global History, Clarissa Hyman - ⭐️⭐️
"Enamelled green trees with courtly flowers and fruit of an eternal springtime could hardly fail to inspire centuries of poets, writers and musicians." p.84

12. Plot - renewal
4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition, Sonia Choquette - ⭐️⭐️
"consider daily meditation a place to find refuge, relief, acceptance, renewal, calm, and quiet, loving acceptance." p.51

13. Plot - char's vanity leads to consequences
10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor, David Stone Potter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Nero stabbed himself to death. Vain and deluded to the last" p.61

14. Plot - explores the impact of self-absorption on relationships
10/12 - Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, William Powers - ⭐️
"I force my mind to become self-absorbed and not let outside things distract it." p.105

15. Plot - personal growth
10/12 - You've Got This: 101 ways to boost your confidence, nurture your spirit and remind yourself that everything is going to be okay, Domonique Bertolucci - ⭐️⭐️
"As I began my journey towards adulthood, I absorbed everything I could about personal growth" p.12

16. Plot - overcoming ego
20/12 - Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living, Mo Gawdat - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I found peace in accepting the uncontrollable and took advice from my soul instead of my ego." p.286

17. Plot - overcoming challenging circumstances
3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"it’s crucial to have as many things working in your favor as possible so that you can overcome the challenges life naturally throws your way" p.125

18. Set - winter
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️

19. Plot - explores cultural differences
6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Greek philosophy was not born in Athens but rather in the intensely cross-cultural setting of the Greek colonies in Asia Minor" p.56

20. Pages - 500+
3/12 - The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing, David Kahn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1,164 pages

21. Plot - hope plays a central role
2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The line between hope and fear was fine; the nervousness of the city palpable." p.356

22. Plot - an important gift changes the course of the story
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chess skills: "There’s not another player in the world as gifted as you are." p.121

23. Title - flower name
3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️

24. Plot - family relationships
1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️
"Family sharing apps are also causing big problems at home." p.23

25. Plot - afterlife
6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives, E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️
It's in the title

26. Char - morally ambiguous
5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, Ross Douthat - ⭐️⭐️
"Ebenezer Scrooge was immoral and money loving, but nobody would call him decadent" p.11

27. N: 6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand, Amanda D. Lotz - ⭐️⭐️
28. A: 5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️
29. R: 5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
30. C: 5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
31. I: 4/12 - It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF, Rebecca Fett - ⭐️⭐️
32. S: 1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
33. S: 2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️
34. U: 6/12 - Universe or Multiverse?, Bernard Carr - ⭐️⭐️
35. S: 2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️

AMMP - Word of the Month: December 2024

✅ Total: 28/28

1. Title - 'magic'
4/12 - Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough, Mattie James - ⭐️⭐️

2. Title - 'magical'
13/12 - Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks, Persi Diaconis - ⭐️⭐️

3. Title - 'Christmas'
13/12 - Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, Paul Corupe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Text - 'emergency'
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“in an emergency.” p.77

5. MPG - a holiday
15/12 - The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits, Les Standiford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
MPG Christmas

6. MPG - travel
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. Cover - airplane
10/12 - , Seth Meyerowitz - ⭐️⭐️

8. Set - big city
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
LA

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9. 1/12 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
10. 3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
11. 5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
12. 8/12 - The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
13. 9/12 - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Title
14. M: 1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️
15. A: 6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness, Hana Ali - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
16. G: 5/12 - Gratitude: A Daily Journal, Jack Canfield - ⭐️
17. I: 1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️
18. C: 3/12 - The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing, David Kahn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

AFN
19. M: 2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️
20. A: 2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
21. G: 8/12 - After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon, Greg Eghigian - ⭐️⭐️
22. I: 15/12 - Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information, Itamar Simonson - ⭐️⭐️
23. C: 1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ALN
24. M: 8/12 - The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️
25. A: 5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️
26. G: 6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives, E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️
27. I: 7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
28. C: 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 - ⭐️⭐️

✅ NBRC - Richard's Marauding Monsters

✅ 3. Jake Barnes & Lady Brett Ashley (The Sun Also Rises)
a. 100-175 pages
Change Your Food, Change Your Mood: A Nutrition-Based Approach to Reducing Stress, Banishing the Blues, and Feeling Great - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Set in Spain
Madrid: Midnight City - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. 'absinthe' in text
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Orange cover
Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. celestial body in title
Moon Maine - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 4. Christian Grey & Anastasia Steele (Fifty Shades of Grey)
a. 200-299 pages
The Impostor Phenomenon: Overcoming the Fear That Haunts Your Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC had a troubled childhood
American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Grey cover
Pakistan: A Hard Country - ⭐️⭐️
d. part of a trilogy
Jurassic Park - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. Number in title
101 Ways to Really Satisfy Your Customers: How to Keep Your Customers and Attract New Ones - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 5. Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
a. 350-450 pages
The Secret History of Wonder Woman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. jewellery on cover
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. MC owns a cat
Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Character smokes
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War - ⭐️⭐️
e. character is a fashionista
Shopping Mall - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 6. Danny Zuko (Grease)
a. 200-299 pages
Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21s t Century - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Car on cover
Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives - ⭐️⭐️
c. Set in 1950s
Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys - ⭐️⭐️
d. character wears leather jacket
Big Money Energy: How to Rule at Work, Dominate at Life, and Make Millions - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. author initals found in HICKEY
Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 7. Hot Prof (Dino Island)
a. 100 to 175 pages
Scheisse! The Real German You Were Never Taught in School - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. rock on cover
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 8. Tom & Summer (500 Days of Summer)
a. 100 to 175 pages
It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944 - ⭐️⭐️
b. 5 in page number
Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 9. Nick & Amy Dunne (Gone Girl)
a. 350 to 450 pages
The Unity of Science: Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC has financial struggles
Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. alliterative title
The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies. The Ultimate A-Z of Ancient Mysteries, Lost Civilizations and Forgotten Wisdom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. kidnapping important to plot
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 10. Karenin (Anna Karenina)
a. 350 to 450 pages
MBA In A Day: What You Would Learn At Top-Tier Business Schools - ⭐️⭐️
b. train on cover
Arabic Phrases, Sayings & Idioms: Fast Arabic to Enrich your Language Now - ⭐️

✅ 11. Humbert Humber (Lolita)
a. 650+ pages
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. author's first and last initial are the same letter
Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love - ⭐️⭐️
c. MC in a relationship under false pretenses
My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech - ⭐️⭐️
d. white cover
Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 12. Tomas & Tereza (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
a. 100 to 175 pages
Karate Science: Dynamic Movement - ⭐️⭐️
b. MC owns a dog
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. takes place in the 1960s
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 13. George & Martha (Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
a. 200 to 299 pages
The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453 - ⭐️
b. MC is married
The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️
c. character name is also a type of animal
The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. made into TV show
The Queen's Gambit - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 14. Alaska (Looking for Alaska)
a. 650+ pages
The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. character name is also a US state
Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy - ⭐️⭐️
c. body of water on cover
Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself - ⭐️⭐️
d. green cover
Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - ⭐️

✅ 15. Hamlet (Hamlet)
a. 350 to 450 pages
It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF - ⭐️⭐️
b. skull on cover
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. takes place in Europe
Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. author initials WS
Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 16. James Bond (James Bond)
a. 650+ pages
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC is a spy
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France - ⭐️⭐️
c. "martini" in text
The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. 7 in publication date
The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 17. Albert & Celie (The Colour Purple)
a. 200 to 299 pages
Burnout: A Guide to Identifying Burnout and Pathways to Recovery - ⭐️⭐️
b. colour word in title
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 18. Tom & Daisy Buchannan (The Great Gatsby)
a. 500 to 650 pages
Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire - ⭐️⭐️
b. MC name is also a plant
Oranges: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️
c. takes place during the Jazz Age
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume - ⭐️⭐️
d. author publishes including their middle name
Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 19. John Willoughby & Marianne Dashwood (Sense & Sensibility)
a. 500 to 650 pages
Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC has at least 3 siblings
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - ⭐️⭐️
c. character is a cheater
Death Punch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem - ⭐️⭐️
d. GREED letters found in title
The Most Interesting Book in the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ HOB - NC5- Creature Captors

✅ Amhuluk

Leg 2
Book: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism
Author: Pierre Novellie
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Task: Cover - eyes
How it Fits:

Leg 1
Book: Daemons are Forever: Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
Author: David Gordon White
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Task: Cover - trees
How it Fits:

Leg 4
Book: American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood
Author: Marc Eliot
Date Read: 23rd
Task: Char - hostile
How it Fits: "hostile sheepherder Tod Stone (Richard Basehart)" p.68

Leg 2
Book: Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey
Author: Mark Webber
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Task: Cover - eyes
How it Fits:

Arm 1
Book: Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living
Author: Holly Trantham
Date Read: Dec 25th
Task: Cover - vines
How it Fits:

Leg 3
Book: Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
Author: Aaron Mahnke
Date Read: Dec 25th
Task: Plot - chars have psychic powers
How it Fits: "He used his psychic sight to diagnose sick people" p.230

Arm 1
Book: Field Guide to Urban Gardening: Sort Through the Small-Space Options and Get Growing Today
Author: Kevin Espiritu
Date Read: Dec 25th
Task: Cover - vines
How it Fits:

Leg 1
Book: Jurassic Park and Philosophy: The Truth Is Terrifying
Author: Nicolas Michaud
Date Read: Dec 25th
Task: Cover - trees
How it Fits:

Arm 2
Book: Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love
Author: Jason Zook
Date Read: Dec 25th
Task: Cover - blue
How it Fits:

Arm 2
Book: Unlock Your Resilience: Strategies for Dealing with Life’s Challenges
Author: Stephanie Azri
Date Read: Dec 26th
Task: Cover - blue
How it Fits:

Leg 3
Book: The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
Author: Philip Ball
Date Read: Dec 26th
Task: Plot - char has psychic powers
How it Fits: "Jung thinks that Paracelsus might have subconsciously grasped the psychic function of evil spirits." p.331

CCC - December 2024 Scavenger: Trans-Siberian Orchestra

✅ Total: 13/13

1. MPG - war
10/12 - The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France, Seth Meyerowitz - ⭐️⭐️

2. Theme - haunting
6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives, E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️
It's in the title

3. Cover - blue
10/12 - , peter-collett - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Title - 'blue'
6/12 - Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Soul Feeling Bad: Daily Steps to Spiritual Growth, Sheldon B. Kopp - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Set - pub
11/12 - The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique, Jeffrey Morgenthaler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Author - initials in PROMISES
2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️

7. Cover - transportation without wheels
8/12 - , Greg Eghigian - ⭐️⭐️

8. Title - all words begin with a letter in SIBERIANSLEIGH
12/12 - Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire, Stacy A. Cordery - ⭐️⭐️
BEA

9. Cover - starry night sky
12/12 - , Emma Howarth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. MC - FN starts with a letter in THIS
8/12 - The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tim

11. Title - cardinal number
8/12 - The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️

12. Cover - snowy scene
1/12 - , Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️

13. Char - wizard/witch/warlock
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Many witch chars

CCC - The Solar System

✅ Total: 40/40

1. Set - space
14/12 - Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut, Mike Mullane - ⭐️⭐️

2. Cover - multiple similar objects
4/12 - , Mattie James - ⭐️⭐️

3. Cover - black
8/12 - , Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️

4. Author - initials in MILKY WAY
6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand, Amanda D. Lotz - ⭐️⭐️

5. Author - 'x'
15/12 - A History of English Literature, Michael Alexander - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Pages - 501+
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
1,011 pages

7. Ratings - 10,001+
3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Over 1 million

8. Cover - cluttered
3/12 - , David Kahn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

9. Published - 2 of these in its original year: 0, 1, 5, 6
1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, Jo Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2013

10. Title - starts with a letter in PLANETS
2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️

11. Cover - circle shape
5/12 - , Jack Canfield - ⭐️

12. Pages - no more than 250
2/12 - Karate Science: Dynamic Movement, J.D. Swanson - ⭐️⭐️
228 pages

13. Cover - night sky
6/12 - , E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️

14. Rating - I rated 4 or 5
1/12 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

15. Cover - living thing
3/12 - , Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️

16. MPG - war
10/12 - The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France, Seth Meyerowitz - ⭐️⭐️

17. Cover - red
11/12 - , Jeffrey Morgenthaler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

18. Plot - char is not what they seem
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Although (Mandrake the Magician) appeared to be a mere illusionist...that was actually a cover for his deeper supernatural powers" p.486

19. Plot - wedding (who is the couple)
3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️
Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller

20. Char - farmer
8/12 - Burnout: A Guide to Identifying Burnout and Pathways to Recovery, Gordon Parker - ⭐️⭐️
"Stephen is a sixth-generation farmer" p.125

21. Author - initials are in TELESCOPE
1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

22. Cover - blue
3/12 - , Clara Capano - ⭐️⭐️

23. Plot - MC works with numbers
6/12 - Universe or Multiverse?, Bernard Carr - ⭐️⭐️
MC is a professor of mathematics & astronomy

24. Authors - 2
3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️

25. Genre - non-fiction
1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️

26. Char - unusual
7/12 - Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Richard E. Cytowic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, who painted music" p.20

27. Published - 2006
12/12 - Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, Joyce A. Tyldesley - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

28. Cover - rocks
6/12 - , John Cook - ⭐️⭐️

29. Cover - beautiful
1/12 - , Vlada Stanković - ⭐️

30. MC - FN starts with a letter in METEORS
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️
Ernest Grimaud de Caux

31. Cover - something glowing
4/12 - , Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️

32. Pages - '30' or '50'
11/12 - The Culprit, Martin Sasek - ⭐️
230 pages

33. Title - at least one word with double vowels
5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

34. MPG - history
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

35. MC - scientist
5/12 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, David Deutsch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
MC is a physicist

36. Cover - human-made artifact
3/12 - , Brit Barron - ⭐️⭐️

37. Published - 20th century
2/12 - Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, Zora Neale Hurston - ⭐️⭐️
1938

38. Title - 'extra'
18/12 - Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD, Jesse J. Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

39. Plot - MC discovers something
5/12 - Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself, Matthew Turner - ⭐️⭐️
"I had discovered an answer to a question I had pondered for weeks." p.59

40. Plot - I found difficult to read
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
Many pages were very faded & near-illegible.

TLC - December 2024 Word Search: Gifts

✅ Total: 45/45

1. apron
6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives, E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️
"slim as a blade in her apron" p.6

2. ball
2/12 - Karate Science: Dynamic Movement, J.D. Swanson - ⭐️⭐️
"ball of the foot" p.31

4. bicycle
2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a bicycle, perhaps a restless dog" p.393

5. board game
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“It’s called chess.” p.10

6. book
6/12 - Universe or Multiverse?, Bernard Carr - ⭐️⭐️
"an entire chapter of his book" p.480

7. calendar
3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the calendar becomes a record" p.157

8. candle
5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, Ross Douthat - ⭐️⭐️
"a candle lit against the rise of a misogynist authoritarianism" p.47

9. cards
3/12 - The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing, David Kahn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"3 × 5 cards for distribution" p.67

13. cup
5/12 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, David Deutsch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"place a ball under a cup" p.29

14. doll
6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand, Amanda D. Lotz - ⭐️⭐️
"Russian Doll, as well as the licensed series The Good Place" p.147

15. earrings
4/12 - Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough, Mattie James - ⭐️⭐️
"only your earrings or lipstick" p.129

16. flowers
4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition, Sonia Choquette - ⭐️⭐️
"the flowers abloom" p.45

17. frame
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 - ⭐️⭐️
"How can I frame it in the other person’s language" p.90

18. gift card
12/12 - Do It! Speaking: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise, David Newman - ⭐️⭐️
"I get custom Amazon gift cards" p.195

19. glasses
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️
"Every second man wore glasses" p.105

20. hot sauce
11/12 - The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique, Jeffrey Morgenthaler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"mango-chipotle hot sauce" p.252

21. kindle
7/12 - Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Richard E. Cytowic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"does not normally kindle activity" p.213

22. knife
10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor, David Stone Potter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"teetered on a knife-edge" p.176

23. luggage
2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️
"strict screening of luggage" p.66

24. nail polish
6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness, Hana Ali - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"smelled like nail-polish remover" p.134

25. necklace
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a necklace formed from opium pods" p.346

26. ornament
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"an ornament to Constantinople" p.286

27. pajamas
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
"pajamas and aprons as well" p.345

28. pan
8/12 - After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon, Greg Eghigian - ⭐️⭐️
"flat like a pie pan" p.23

29. perfume
7/12 - Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism, Elizabeth Bartmess - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"sensory issues with strong perfumes" p.44

30. phone
1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️
"think about their phone habits" p.16

32. pillow
2/12 - Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, Zora Neale Hurston - ⭐️⭐️
"he pillow with the parched peas" p.40

33. plants
1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the huge diversity of plants" p.149

34. popcorn
11/12 - The Most Interesting Book in the World, Edward Brooke-Hitching - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn." p.349

35. purse
3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️
"I grabbed my purse" p.118

36. ring
3/12 - Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love, Brit Barron - ⭐️⭐️
"continues to ring true to me" p.26

37. robe
6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"like a robe or a net" p.154

38. shoes
4/12 - Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment, Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️
"shoes I walk in" p.257

39. slippers
5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"his shoes as soft as slippers" p.236

40. socks
6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir, John Cook - ⭐️⭐️
"I made my way forward on socks" p.74

41. straws
9/12 - Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus - ⭐️
"one of those plastic straws" p.175

42. sweater
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
"a sweater & a beret" p.52

43. tea
1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, Jo Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Green tea and soy products" p.25

44. tiara
3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️
"a tiara on her head" p.40

45. tools
1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
"diverse analytical tools" p.204

46. toys
6/12 - Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Soul Feeling Bad: Daily Steps to Spiritual Growth, Sheldon B. Kopp - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"acting like wind-up toys" p.210

47. underwear
5/12 - Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself, Matthew Turner - ⭐️⭐️
"stripped down to my underwear" p.134

48. wallet
5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️
"wallet, voice, or vote" p.35

49. watch
2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
"watch as crocodiles bask in the sun" p.222

50. wine
4/12 - It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF, Rebecca Fett - ⭐️⭐️
"occasional single glass of wine" p.184

TLC - December 2024 Scattergories: G

✅ Total: 14/14

1. Title
5/12 - Gratitude: A Daily Journal, Jack Canfield - ⭐️
Gratitude

2. AFN
5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
George

3. AMN
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
George

4. ALN
1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️
Goodin

5. MC
10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor, David Stone Potter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gaius Julius Caesar

6. SC
3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️
"Gloria, who has been a good friend" p.8

7. Place
2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
"There are many acropolises scattered around Greece" p.177

8. Cover - item
4/12 - Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment, Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️
Gamer-chair -

9. Things Found in a Bar
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a somewhat ginger relationship with the oceans" p.46

10. A Place on Your Property
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
"still available at garage sales" p.288

11. Begins with GR-
1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the different species of grouse" p.134

12. Descriptive word
1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
"The golden accessories on the fabrics" p.97

13. Household object
1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, Jo Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"depend on the heat of your grill" p.78

14. Something you hear
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"pushing up weights and groaning." p.202

✅ HOB - Dark Christmas

Krampus
1. Title - starts with a letter in KRAMPUS
8/12 - The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️
2. Published - December
8/12 - The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Pages - '5'
9/12 - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jólakötturinn
1. Text - 'claw'
10/12 - The Book Of Tells, peter-collett - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Cover - cat
11/12 - The Culprit, Martin Sasek - ⭐️
3. Author - an initial in ICELANDIC
12/12 - Do It! Speaking: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise, David Newman - ⭐️⭐️

Frau Perchta
1. Pages - '25'
13/12 - A Complaint Is a Gift Workbook: 101 Activities, Exercises, and Tools to Learn from Critical Feedback and Recover Customer Loyalty, Janelle Barlow - ⭐️⭐️
2. Char - a vengeful female
13/12 - Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, Paul Corupe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Title - 'witch'
14/12 - Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers, Marie Carter - ⭐️⭐️

Belsnickel
1. Text - 'tattered'
17/12 - The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA, Deborah Cadbury - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Title - starts with a letter in BELSNICKEL
18/12 - Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD, Jesse J. Anderson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. MC - old male
19/12 - Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation, Jim O’Heir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hans Trapp
1. Plot - scarecrow
20/12 - A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry, Robert Hass - ⭐️⭐️
2. Cover - fog
20/12 - Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe, Rachel Chrastil - ⭐️⭐️
3. Cover - forest
21/12 - Lonely Planet Germany, Austria & Switzerland's Best Trips, Lonely Planet - ⭐️⭐️

Père Fouettard
1. Plot - char is killed
22/12 - Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel, Dan Slater - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Title - starts with P
22/12 - Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, Benoît Clerc - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Cover - knife
22/12 - No Apologies: Ditch Diet Culture and Rebuild Your Relationship with Food, Niamh Orbinski - ⭐️⭐️

✅ FLOAB - Mickey's Christmas Carol Countdown

Day 1
Book: The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Date Read: Dec 1st
Task: Tagged - historical
How it Fits: MPG Historical

Day 2
Book: Madrid: A New Biography
Author: Luke Stegemann
Date Read: Dec 2nd
Task: Title - proper noun
How it Fits: Madrid

Day 3
Book: Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
Author: Matthew Parker
Date Read: Dec 3rd
Task: Pages - '7'
How it Fits: 447 pages

Day 4
Book: The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
Author: Ross Douthat
Date Read: Dec 5th
Task: Cover - something black
How it Fits: - hat

Day 5
Book: The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones
Author: Rich Cohen
Date Read: Dec 5th
Task: Plot - char speaks up to support another char
How it Fits: "Jerry Hall comes (sort of) to her ex-husband’s defense: “Mick is very well endowed. Keith is just jealous.”" p.337

Day 6
Book: At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness
Author: Hana Ali
Date Read: Dec 6th
Task: Author - initials in BAH HUMBUG
How it Fits: HA

Day 7
Book: Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Author: Richard E. Cytowic
Date Read: Dec 7th
Task: Text - 'chain'
How it Fits: "very early in the perceptual chain" p.49

Day 8
Book: Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor
Author: David Stone Potter
Date Read: Dec 10th
Task: Title - starts a letter in CRICKET
How it Fits: E

Day 9
Book: Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
Author: William Powers
Date Read: Dec 10th
Task: Plot - char plays music
How it Fits: "Driving along with music playing, I gradually relaxed into a better mood." p.203

Day 10
Book: A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again
Author: Emma Howarth
Date Read: Dec 12th
Task: MC has a boyfriend
How it Fits: "I’ve broken my first boyfriend’s heart in my quest to be free." p.116

Day 11
Book: The True History of Merlin the Magician
Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Date Read: Dec 13th
Task: Pages - 2 numbers from 9972
How it Fits: 272 pages

Day 12
Book: A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road
Author: James Oseland
Date Read: Dec 14th
Task: Cover - food
How it Fits: - apple

Day 13
Book: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners
Author: Laurent A. Daloz
Date Read: Dec 15th
Task: Cover - fire
How it Fits:

Day 14
Book: Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show
Author: Bethany Joy Lenz
Date Read: Dec 15th
Task: MC - has a child of any age
How it Fits: "I looked down at my daughter’s face" p.12

Day 15
Book: Invisible Influence: The Power to Persuade Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Author: Kevin Hogan
Date Read: Dec 16th
Task: Title - alliteration
How it Fits: I I

Day 16
Book: 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
Author: John C. Lennox
Date Read: Dec 17th
Task: Set - future
How it Fits: It's in the title

Day 17
Book: The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA
Author: Deborah Cadbury
Date Read: Dec 17th
Task: Plot - a character dies
How it Fits: "Was the disease-riddled little boy who died in 1795 after years alone in a prison cell really the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette?" p.5

Day 18
Book: Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds
Author: Remi Adeleke
Date Read: Dec 18th
Task: Cover - 1 person
How it Fits:

Day 19
Book: A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
Author: Robert Hass
Date Read: Dec 20th
Task: Text - 'fire'
How it Fits: "who ate fire in paint hotels" p.25

Day 20
Book: Imperfect Environmentalist: How to Reduce Waste and Create Change for a Better Planet
Author: Sheila Morovati
Date Read: Dec 21st
Task: Title - all the letters of CANE
How it Fits: imperfeCt ENvironmentAlist

Day 21
Book: Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
Author: Kelly Weill
Date Read: Dec 21st
Task: Published - 2 & 0
How it Fits: 2022

Day 22
Book: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism
Author: Pierre Novellie
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Task: Pages - 2
How it Fits: 293 pages

Day 23
Book: 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation
Author: Clint Emerson
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Task: Title - double letter
How it Fits: skiLLs

Day 24
Book: Feeling 'Blah'?: Why Life Feels Joyless and How to Recapture Its Highs
Author: Tanith Carey
Date Read: Dec 24th
Task: Author - an initial in TOYS
How it Fits: AFN initial is T

AMMP - Word Hunt: December 2024

✅ Total: 30/30

1. 🎀Fruitcake
13/12 - Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, Paul Corupe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Santa Claus, plucked from his sled, is turned into a fruitcake" p.401

2. 🌟Pageant
12/12 - Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire, Stacy A. Cordery - ⭐️⭐️
"The nation’s first Miss America pageant" p.83

3. 🎀Mistletoe
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Mistletoe was sacred to the Greeks" p.335

4. 🌟Snowflake
6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The concept of a snowflake" p.649

5. 🎀Icicles
16/12 - The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet, Lonely Planet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"icicles as big as organ pipes" p.198

6. 🌟Cards
2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️
"emblems and membership cards" p.245

7. 🎀Goodwill
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
"a one-man, goodwill ambassador" p.210

8. 🌟Yule
11/12 - The Most Interesting Book in the World, Edward Brooke-Hitching - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Victorian orientalist Henry Yule" p.19

9. 🎀Crowds
3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️
"the crowds at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival" p.202

10. 🌟Turkey
1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The Wild Turkey was once endangered" p.200

11. 🎀Sleigh
7/12 - Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism, Elizabeth Bartmess - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"provisions in festive pictures and sleigh bells" p.39

12. 🌟Cold
2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
"classified as cold deserts" p.231

13. 🎀Punch
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Make your move and punch the clock” p.81

14. 🌟Candles
3/12 - The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing, David Kahn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Fire and candles burned constantly" p.225

15. 🎀Dolls
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
"trashy novel Valley of the Dolls (1966)" p.265

16. 🌟Wreath
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"having God as a wreath over her heart" p.258

17. 🎀Angels
5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, Ross Douthat - ⭐️⭐️
"like angels on Jacob’s ladder" p.7

18. 🌟Sacred
1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
"protection of these sacred objects" p.79

19. 🎀Season
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️
"In full tomato season" p.80

20. 🌟Eggnog
12/12 - A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again, Emma Howarth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the people around you are high on eggnog" p.235

21. 🎀Poinsettia
3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️
"the poinsettias were adding their scarlet quota" p.196

22. 🌟Gifts
3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"better than opening the gifts" p.91

23. 🎀Holly
5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"That’s what happens when you see Buddy Holly." p.28

24. 🌟Decorations
2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a series of discreet decorations" p.178

25. 🎀Togetherness
1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️
"in our moments of togetherness" p.54

26. 🌟Candy cane
16/12 - Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire, Ashley Spencer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Candy Cane Lane" p.81

27. 🎀Family reunion
13/12 - Judy: The Life, Legend, and Tragedy of an American Icon, Gerold Frank - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"When they met later, it was like a family reunion." p.39

28. 🌟Christmas cookies
14/12 - Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and Mental Illness, Mary Forsberg Weiland - ⭐️⭐️
"former model makes Christmas cookies" p.195

29. 🎀Sweet potato
2/12 - Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, Zora Neale Hurston - ⭐️⭐️
"sweet potatoes, chicken, a tobacco pipe" p.106

30. 🌟Cranberry sauce
14/12 - A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road, James Oseland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the cranberry sauce, and what have you." p.121

AMMP - Cover Hunt: December 2024

✅ Total: 15/15

1. 🎀Fruitcake - food
6/12 - , Amanda D. Lotz - ⭐️⭐️
Popcorn

2. 🌟Icicles - snow
5/12 - , Matthew Turner - ⭐️⭐️

3. 🎀Cards - paper item of any kind
2/12 - , Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️

4. 🌟Goodwill - happy person
3/12 - , Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️

5. 🎀Cold - cold scene
1/12 - , Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️

6. 🌟Punch - any drink
1/12 - , Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. 🎀Candles - flame
5/12 - , Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️

8. 🌟Wreath - greenery
6/12 - , John Cook - ⭐️⭐️

9. 🎀Sacred - a peaceful scene
1/12 - , Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. 🌟Poinsettia - flowers
4/12 - , Mattie James - ⭐️⭐️

11. 🎀Gifts - ribbon
13/12 - , Janelle Barlow - ⭐️⭐️

12. 🌟Decorations - holiday scene
3/12 - , Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️

13. 🎀Togetherness - people holding hands
3/12 - , Clara Capano - ⭐️⭐️

14. 🌟Candy cane - sweet treat
5/12 - , Ross Douthat - ⭐️⭐️
Cake

15. 🎀Sweet potato - mostly orange cover
13/12 - , Mike Kim - ⭐️⭐️

TOAP - 12 Days of Christmas

✅ Total: 18/18

1. 🎄 Cover - fruit
1/12 - , Jo Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. 🎄 Title - fruit
10/12 - Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, William Powers - ⭐️

3. 🎄 Cover - snow
1/12 - , Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️

4. 🎄 Cover - white
3/12 - , James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. 🎄 Set - France
8/12 - The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️
"By June, all of Paris was buzzing with talk of scent." p.28

6. 🎄 Cover - bird
1/12 - , Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. 🎄 Plot - married couple
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
"Joseph Schenck... Some of their earliest films, made in a New York warehouse, starred future star Norma Talmadge, whom he married in 1916." p.22

8. 🎄 Cover - gold
2/12 - , Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️

9. 🎄 Cover - yellow
2/12 - , Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. 🎄 Cover - natural body of water
5/12 - , Matthew Turner - ⭐️⭐️

11. 🎄 Char - cooks
3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️
"Mary Crickmere, who lived in the basement and cooked the meals" p.154

12. 🎄 Char - cleans
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"vast stables Herakles would be forced to clean" p.50

13. 🎄 Cover - 2+ females
3/12 - , Clara Capano - ⭐️⭐️

14. 🎄 MPG - Historical
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

15. 🎄 Cover - green title
8/12 - , Greg Eghigian - ⭐️⭐️

16. 🎄 Cover - red title
3/12 - , Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️

17. 🎄 Cover - instrument
9/12 - , Charles Mingus - ⭐️

18. 🎄 Char - musician
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️

WC - French Polynesia Word Search

✅ Total: 44/44

1. Actor
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
"producer rather than an actor" p.52

2. Adventurous
4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition, Sonia Choquette - ⭐️⭐️
"she describes herself as adventurous" p.64

3. Atoll
15/12 - 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half, Stephen R. Bown - ⭐️⭐️
"the lookout spied an uninhabited atoll" p.157

4. Balsa
16/12 - Endless Highway, David Carradine - ⭐️⭐️
"fighter planes out of balsa wood" p.47

5. Banana tree
14/12 - Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II, Abbott Kahler - ⭐️⭐️
"open path decorated by green banana trees" p.92

6. Black
1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️
"thin fellow in a black polo neck" p.8

7. Competition
4/12 - Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment, Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️
"worldwide hub for online competition" p.29

8. Dance
4/12 - Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough, Mattie James - ⭐️⭐️
"I will dance to my Beyoncé playlist" p.49

9. Drums
5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"But who was on drums?" p.49

10. Fallout
8/12 - After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon, Greg Eghigian - ⭐️⭐️
"the scandal and its fallout" p.244

11. Famous
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 - ⭐️⭐️
"famous anthropologist" p.42

12. Farm
1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"George Orwell’s Animal Farm" p.27

13. Fenced
13/12 - Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, Paul Corupe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"sneak into the fenced off area" p.299

14. Florists
9/12 - Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus - ⭐️
"see his florists or talk to his chef" p.171

15. Fragrant
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"thyme and fragrant grasses" p.182

16. Guesthouse
3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️
"in the governor’s guesthouse" p.106

17. Hips
2/12 - Karate Science: Dynamic Movement, J.D. Swanson - ⭐️⭐️
"use your hips" p.21

18. Honeymoon
3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️
"Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller on their honeymoon" p.80

19. Horseback
6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness, Hana Ali - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"a police officer on horseback" p.240

20. Hull
6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"with Monte Hull" p.28

21. International
5/12 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, David Deutsch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"the vagaries of international politics" p.90

22. Isolated
2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
“tall, isolated, and pointy hill.” p.31

23. Military base
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️
"for a long period our military base" p.128

24. Missionary
2/12 - Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, Zora Neale Hurston - ⭐️⭐️
"A white Protestant missionary minister" p.142

25. Mutineers
15/12 - Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World, Jack Kelly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"The enraged British invented a punishment for mutineers known as the Devil’s Wind." p.202

26. Necklace
10/12 - The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France, Seth Meyerowitz - ⭐️⭐️
"The couple had already seen the necklace" p.56

27. Nuclear
3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"prevent nuclear war" p.165

28. Painter
2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"painter Jeroen van Aken of Hertogenbosch" p.129

29. Pearl
8/12 - The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️
"a five-strand pearl necklace" p.113

30. Poisonous
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"assassinate King James VI with poisonous toad juice" p.125

31. Polynesian
13/12 - Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography, Karl Ruhrberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Polynesian sculpture" p.59

32. Protection
2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️
"Protection Against False Accusation" p.59

33. Radioactive
5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️
"radioactive for members of his party" p.102

34. Rain
5/12 - Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself, Matthew Turner - ⭐️⭐️
"rain attacking my face" p.28

35. Refuge
6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir, John Cook - ⭐️⭐️
"took refuge in sleep" p.158

36. Rhythm
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
"a hopeless rhythm section" p.22

37. Shark
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"play the next day like a shark" p.150

38. Submarine
3/12 - The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing, David Kahn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"unrestricted submarine warfare" p.360

39. Territory
1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
"presumably within imperial territory" p.30

40. Tiki
5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, Ross Douthat - ⭐️⭐️
“preppy dudes with tiki torches” p.122

41. Tattoo
9/12 - The Great Peace: A Memoir, Mena Suvari - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"after my tattoo was done we kept in touch" p.231

42. Uninhabited
6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives, E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️
"such a place to be uninhabited" p.122

43. Vanilla
1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, Jo Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"pure vanilla extract" p.297

44. Welcome
3/12 - Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love, Brit Barron - ⭐️⭐️
"Welcome to progressive amnesia." p.40

WC - Paradise on Earth: French Polynesia

✅ Total: 30/30

1. Set - a city with an international airport
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
LAX

2. Title - starts with a letter in TAHITI
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Cover - black
8/12 - , Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️

4. Plot - wedding
3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️
"a special wedding supper prepared by Violet" p.129

5. Author - initials in WINDWARD ISLES
2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Char - actor
3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️
Kathleen Turner

7. Pages - 2 of these 1, 7, 8, 9
1/12 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
391 pages

8. Title - initial of every word in the title in SECOND WORLD WAR
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
EOW

9. Plot - religious ceremony
1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
"the Serbian King insisted on a genuine marriage ceremony" p.132

10. Title - all the letters of MOTU
3/12 - Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love, Brit Barron - ⭐️⭐️

11. Tagged - adventure
10/12 - The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France, Seth Meyerowitz - ⭐️⭐️

12. Set - isolated place
2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
"the mountain Pau-nh-açuquã, which translates to “tall, isolated, and pointy hill.”" p.31

13. Plot - a conflict
2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️
"the violent armed conflict that still persists in the Niger Delta today" p.181

14. Text - 'nuclear'
3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"prevent nuclear war" p.165

15. Set - 19th century
14/12 - Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers, Marie Carter - ⭐️⭐️

16. MC - FN starts with a letter in PEARL
10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor, David Stone Potter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Augustus

17. GR - won an award
15/12 - Anxiety Rx: A Revolutionary New Prescription for Anxiety Relief―from the Doctor Who Created It, Russell Kennedy - ⭐️⭐️
Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Award in Psychology

18. Genre - non-fiction
1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️

19. Title - starts with a letter in RANGIROA
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️

20. Pages - '00'
8/12 - After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon, Greg Eghigian - ⭐️⭐️
400 pages

21. Author - initials in PAUL GAUGUIN
6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand, Amanda D. Lotz - ⭐️⭐️

22. Plot - MC participates in an activity that involves water
6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir, John Cook - ⭐️⭐️
"Walking in wind of 100 knots is extremely difficult. Water was blasting me in the face, as were bits of debris." p.104

23. Set - farm
6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives, E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️
"The cattle farmer recalled having once refused her buttermilk, upon which she cursed him" p.69

24. Plot - MC makes an expensive purchase
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
"It was an expensive French Selmer tenor saxophone" p.117

25. MC - tattooed
9/12 - The Great Peace: A Memoir, Mena Suvari - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"after my tattoo was done we kept in touch" p.231

26. Title - 2 sets of double letters
5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

27. Cover - flowers
4/12 - , Mattie James - ⭐️⭐️

28. Published - July
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 - ⭐️⭐️

29. Title - all the letters of OTEA
1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, Jo Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

30. Title - initial of every word in HAWAIKI NUI VA'A
7/12 - Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism, Elizabeth Bartmess - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
KW

WC - World Landmarks: The Statue of Liberty

✅ Total: 13/13

1. Set - NYC
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Beth loved New York." p.97

2. Cover - statue
2/12 - , Amber Share - ⭐️

3. Author - an initial starts with F
29/11 - Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them, Porter Fox - ⭐️⭐️

4. Author - an initial starts with B
30/11 - Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, Joe Biden - ⭐️⭐️

5. Published: Sept or Oct
29/11 - The Unity of Science: Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century, Irwin Shapiro - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Published October 31, 2023

6. Pages - 350+
29/11 - Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, David Semple - ⭐️⭐️
1,755 pages

7. Cover - blue
10/12 - , peter-collett - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Cover - green
29/11 - , Joel McHale - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

9. Title - starts with a letter in COPPER
30/11 - The Evolution of Technology, George Basalla - ⭐️⭐️

10. Char - a king
29/11 - Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors, David Baldwin - ⭐️⭐️
Henry VIII

11. Cover - a light
4/12 - , Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️

12. Cover - flame
5/12 - , Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️

13. Cover - lighthouse
6/12 - , John Cook - ⭐️⭐️

WC - Let's Shop the World

✅ Total: 14/14

1. Series - 3
29/11 - Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, David Semple - ⭐️⭐️
3rd edition

2. Tagged - history
30/11 - Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, Joe Biden - ⭐️⭐️

3. Ratings - 1,201+
29/11 - Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be, Joel McHale - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2,000+

4. Published - 2023
29/11 - The Unity of Science: Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century, Irwin Shapiro - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Published October 31, 2023

5. Title - 'of'
30/11 - Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Tony Thorne - ⭐️⭐️

6. Set - winter
29/11 - Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them, Porter Fox - ⭐️⭐️
"a winter gale in Wick, Scotland" 26

7. Author - initials in LEGOLAND
6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand, Amanda D. Lotz - ⭐️⭐️

8. Cover - amber-hued
13/12 - , Mike Kim - ⭐️⭐️

9. Plot - unusual twist
11/12 - The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany, Gwen Strauss - ⭐️⭐️
"What she had assumed was the end of the line for her was only another strange twist. An entire barracks of uniformed gendarmes had joined the Résistance together." p.19

10. Pages - 2 & 3
29/11 - MBA In A Day: What You Would Learn At Top-Tier Business Schools, Steven Stralser - ⭐️⭐️
320 pages

11. MC - FN starts with a letter in LOTTE
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️
Ernest Grimaud de Caux

12. Title - starts with a letter in PHOENIX
29/11 - Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors, David Baldwin - ⭐️⭐️
H

13. Set - Asia
6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

14. Plot - renovation
1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
"During the fourteenth century, the monastery was renovated once again" p.104

TLC - White Words

✅ Total: 20/20

1. Sugar
Set - China
14/12 - China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy, Kay Ann Johnson - ⭐️⭐️

2. Milk
Set - first letter in MILK
2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Madrid

3. Cream
Author - initials in CREAM
5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Snow
Cover - snow
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️


5. Glacier
Cover - body of water
5/12 - Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself, Matthew Turner - ⭐️⭐️


6. Coconut
Set - first letter in COCONUT
13/12 - Death Punch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem, Jeremy Spencer - ⭐️⭐️
"My new life in California is starting off on a gay porn set." p.176

7. Baseball
Author - initials in NEW YORK
15/12 - Anxiety Rx: A Revolutionary New Prescription for Anxiety Relief―from the Doctor Who Created It, Russell Kennedy - ⭐️⭐️

8. Teeth
Pages - 2+ of these 1, 0, 6, 3, 2
1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, Tanya Goodin - ⭐️⭐️
260 pages

9. Bone
Author - initials in BONES
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️

10. Tofu
Title - initial of each word in BEAN CURD (2 word min)
14/12 - Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II, Abbott Kahler - ⭐️⭐️

11. Styrofoam
Author - initials in STYROFOAM
2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️

12. Rice
Tagged - religion
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
x6

13. Flour
Author - initials in FLOUR
4/12 - It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF, Rebecca Fett - ⭐️⭐️

14. Clouds
Cover - water
6/12 - , John Cook - ⭐️⭐️

15. Jasmine
Plot - char wears a perfume
8/12 - The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️
Many chars do

16. Beluga Whale
Title - initial of each word in BELUGA WHALE (3 word min)
12/12 - Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire, Stacy A. Cordery - ⭐️⭐️
BEA

17. Garlic
Author - initials in GARLIC
5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

18. Ivory
Cover - animal
1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


19. Cauliflower
Title - initial of each word in CAULIFLOWER (3 word min)
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
EOW

20. Polar Bear
Cover - skull
13/12 - , Paul Corupe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

LSC - Covered Bridge Ranch

✅ Total: 69/69

Covered Bridge Ranch
C: 1/12 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 20/12 - The Vocabulary Builder Workbook: Simple Lessons and Activities to Teach Yourself Over 1,400 Must-Know Words - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
E: 4/12 - Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough - ⭐️⭐️
D: 3/12 - Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love - ⭐️⭐️
B: 1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453 - ⭐️
R: 5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944 - ⭐️⭐️
D: 5/12 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, David Deutsch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica - ⭐️⭐️
E: 7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand - ⭐️⭐️
C: 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 - ⭐️⭐️
H: 6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives - ⭐️⭐️

Christmas
C: 3/12 - The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 10/12 - Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - ⭐️
R: 12/12 - Lonely Planet Greece, Simon Richmond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️
S: 2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria - ⭐️⭐️

Tree
T: 2/12 - Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica - ⭐️⭐️
R: 13/12 - Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography, Karl Ruhrberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 7/12 - Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism, Elizabeth Bartmess - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 8/12 - After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon, Greg Eghigian - ⭐️⭐️

Conifer
C: 7/12 - Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Richard E. Cytowic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 11/12 - Oranges: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️
N: 11/12 - The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - ⭐️⭐️
I: 4/12 - It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF - ⭐️⭐️
F: 4/12 - Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment, Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️
E: 10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 14/12 - Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut - ⭐️⭐️

Nursery
N: 12/12 - Do It! Speaking: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise, David Newman - ⭐️⭐️
U: 6/12 - Universe or Multiverse? - ⭐️⭐️
R: 15/12 - Anxiety Rx: A Revolutionary New Prescription for Anxiety Relief―from the Doctor Who Created It, Russell Kennedy - ⭐️⭐️
S: 2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors - ⭐️
E: 11/12 - The Most Interesting Book in the World, Edward Brooke-Hitching - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 16/12 - Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life, Rose Anne Kenny - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition - ⭐️⭐️

Colorado
C: 9/12 - Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus - ⭐️
O: 14/12 - A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road, James Oseland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️
O: 14/12 - The Owner's Manual to Life: Simple Strategies to Worry Less and Enjoy Life More - ⭐️⭐️
R: 18/12 - Approaching Disability: Critical issues and perspectives by Mallett Rebecca Runswick-Cole Katherine (2014-06-25) Paperback, Rebecca Mallett - ⭐️⭐️
A: 6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success - ⭐️⭐️
O: 19/12 - Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation, Jim O’Heir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Montrose
M: 2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 19/12 - Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests - ⭐️⭐️
N: 21/12 - No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️
R: 18/12 - Cuban Cocktails: 100 Classic and Modern Drinks - A Cocktail Book, Ravi DeRossi - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 21/12 - Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
E: 12/12 - A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again, Emma Howarth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Longhorn
L: 10/12 - The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France - ⭐️⭐️
O: 22/12 - No Apologies: Ditch Diet Culture and Rebuild Your Relationship with Food, Niamh Orbinski - ⭐️⭐️
N: 21/12 - No Worries: A Guide to Releasing Anxiety and Worry Using CBT - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 5/12 - Gratitude: A Daily Journal - ⭐️
H: 15/12 - A History of English Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 23/12 - Overcoming Imposter Anxiety: Move Beyond Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt to Embrace Your Worthy, Capable Self - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 18/12 - Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds, Remi Adeleke - ⭐️⭐️
N: 22/12 - Unlocking Spanish with Paul Noble: Your key to language success, Paul Noble - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

AMMP - 2024 Holiday Feast

✅ Total: 45/45

1. Cover - white
3/12 - , James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Cover - green
10/12 - , William Powers - ⭐️

3. Title - starts with a letter in SPINACH
2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️

4. Title - all the letters in BRIE
1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Title - starts with a letter in SKINKESTANG
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Title - double letter
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
quEEn

7. Set - Asia
6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Cover - orange
11/12 - , Clarissa Hyman - ⭐️⭐️

9. Cover - yellow
2/12 - , Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. Cover - vegetable
16/12 - , David A. Kessler - ⭐️⭐️

11. Title - starts with B
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️

12. Text - 'spice'
7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"spice aisles of food markets" p.324

13. Set - eastern part of a country
6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir, John Cook - ⭐️⭐️
Tasmania, south-east Australia

14. Cover - orange
13/12 - , Janelle Barlow - ⭐️⭐️

15. MC - 2+
16/12 - Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire, Ashley Spencer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Many child actors

16. Title - the letters HAM
5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

17. Title - the letters PIG
10/12 - Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption, Jean-Philippe Aumasson - ⭐️⭐️

18. Cover - spirals
3/12 - , Brit Barron - ⭐️⭐️

19. Cover - circular items
4/12 - , Mattie James - ⭐️⭐️

20. Text - 'squash'
4/12 - It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF, Rebecca Fett - ⭐️⭐️
"winter squash" p.158

21. Char - vegetarian
11/12 - The Most Interesting Book in the World, Edward Brooke-Hitching - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"(Pythagoras) reportedly avoided eating meat" p.255

22. Cover - leaf
16/12 - , Rose Anne Kenny - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

23. Title - the letters CHEESE
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 - ⭐️⭐️

24. Cover - colourful
4/12 - , Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️

25. Title - starts with a letter in JELLO
10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor, David Stone Potter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

26. Set - UK
15/12 - The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits, Les Standiford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

27. Title - double letter
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️
haPPened

28. Cover - yellow
2/12 - , Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️

29. Cover - red
13/12 - , Karl Ruhrberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

30. Cover - drink
5/12 - , Ross Douthat - ⭐️⭐️

31. Cover - a couple kissing
16/12 - , Warren G. Harris - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

32. Author - initials in PEANUT BUTTER
5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️

33. Cover - red
14/12 - , James Oseland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

34. Title - starts with a letter in CRANBERRY
3/12 - The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing, David Kahn - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

35. MC - male
3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️
Ian Fleming

36. Author - an initial in APPLE CRISP
1/12 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
SRC

37. Title - 7-letter-word
1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
Balkans

38. Cover - moon
6/12 - , E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️

39. Cover - 4+ colours
1/12 - - ⭐️⭐️

40. Set - summer
12/12 - Lonely Planet Greece, Simon Richmond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Summer season is a tradition here" p.44

41. Plot - MC drinks alcohol
5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"John Lennon and Brian Jones stood over the turntable, drinking wine and listening to music." p.68

42. Cover - 'delicious' person
13/12 - Judycover: The Life, Legend, and Tragedy of an American Icon, Gerold Frank - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

43. Cover - something round
5/12 - , Jack Canfield - ⭐️

44. Cover - orange
13/12 - , Mike Kim - ⭐️⭐️

45. Title - name
6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness, Hana Ali - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

LSC - December 2024: Celebrating 200 Years of RSPCA/CHRISTMAS

✅ Total: 69/69

Christmas
C: 1/12 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives - ⭐️⭐️
R: 3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
I: 1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944 - ⭐️⭐️
S: 1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 2/12 - Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica - ⭐️⭐️
M: 1/12 - My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech - ⭐️⭐️
A: 3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria - ⭐️⭐️

RSPCA
R: 5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors - ⭐️
P: 9/12 - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 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 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️

Pets
P: 12/12 - The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, Joyce A. Tyldesley - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️
S: 2/12 - Karate Science: Dynamic Movement, J.D. Swanson - ⭐️⭐️

Life
L: 2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 4/12 - Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment, Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️
E: 4/12 - Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough - ⭐️⭐️

Gift
G: 3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica - ⭐️⭐️
I: 4/12 - It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF - ⭐️⭐️
F: 13/12 - Judy: The Life, Legend, and Tragedy of an American Icon, Gerold Frank - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
T: 5/12 - Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself, Matthew Turner - ⭐️⭐️

Love
L: 6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️
O: 6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
V: 1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
E: 7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Adopt
A: 6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 3/12 - Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love - ⭐️⭐️
O: 11/12 - Oranges: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️
P: 8/12 - Burnout: A Guide to Identifying Burnout and Pathways to Recovery, Gordon Parker - ⭐️⭐️
T: 8/12 - The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo - ⭐️⭐️

Cheer
C: 3/12 - The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
H: 15/12 - A History of English Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 7/12 - Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism, Elizabeth Bartmess - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tinsel
T: 8/12 - The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 15/12 - Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information, Itamar Simonson - ⭐️⭐️
N: 6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand - ⭐️⭐️
S: 3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
E: 11/12 - The Most Interesting Book in the World, Edward Brooke-Hitching - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 10/12 - The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France - ⭐️⭐️

Pudding
P: 10/12 - The Book Of Tells, peter-collett - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 6/12 - Universe or Multiverse? - ⭐️⭐️
D: 5/12 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, David Deutsch - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success - ⭐️⭐️
I: 16/12 - I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Soldier - ⭐️⭐️
N: 11/12 - The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - ⭐️⭐️
G: 5/12 - Gratitude: A Daily Journal - ⭐️

Chocolate
C: 4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition, Sonia Choquette - ⭐️⭐️
H: 10/12 - Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - ⭐️
O: 14/12 - A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road, James Oseland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 7/12 - Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Richard E. Cytowic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 14/12 - The Owner's Manual to Life: Simple Strategies to Worry Less and Enjoy Life More - ⭐️⭐️
L: 12/12 - Lonely Planet Greece - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 8/12 - After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon - ⭐️⭐️
T: 13/12 - The True History of Merlin the Magician - ⭐️⭐️
E: 12/12 - A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again, Emma Howarth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Welfare
W: 1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 13/12 - Explaining Life Through Evolution - ⭐️⭐️
L: 14/12 - Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, Martin Lindstrom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 14/12 - Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and Mental Illness - ⭐️⭐️
A: 10/12 - Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption, Jean-Philippe Aumasson - ⭐️⭐️
R: 13/12 - Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography, Karl Ruhrberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 14/12 - Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II - ⭐️⭐️

✅ FLOAB - Cryptid Hunt

Cryptid: Honey Island Swamp Monster
Book: My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech
Author: Tanya Goodin
Pages: 260
Date Read: Dec 1st
Task: Title - starts with H, I, S, or M
How it Fits: Title starts with M

Cryptid: Nittaewo
Book: Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
Author: Matthew Parker
Pages: 447
Date Read: Dec 3rd
Task: Plot - a group of characters who live together
How it Fits: "the family lived in a lavish mansion in Kingston" p.50

Cryptid: Skunk Ape
Book: Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker
Author: Robert George Reisner
Pages: 256
Date Read: Dec 3rd
Task: Pages - '5' or '7'
How it Fits: 256 pages

Cryptid: Yeren
Book: Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition
Author: Sonia Choquette
Pages: 194
Date Read: Dec 4th
Task: Text - 'bear', 'monkey', or 'gibbon'
How it Fits: "wrestle a bear into a cage" p.42

Cryptid: Yeti
Book: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World
Author: David Deutsch
Pages: 496
Date Read: Dec 5th
Task: Text - 'evidence'
How it Fits: "from the evidence of our senses" p.13

Cryptid: Yowie
Book: Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy
Author: Bill Adair
Pages: 291
Date Read: Dec 5th
Task: Plot - MC is described as either “timid”, “shy”, “violent” or “aggressive”
How it Fits: "(Nixon) lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.... Finally, he enjoyed lying." p.60

Cryptid: Jersey Devil
Book: Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives
Author: E. Jay Gilbert
Pages: 320
Date Read: Dec 6th
Task: Plot - curse
How it Fits: "The cattle farmer recalled having once refused her buttermilk, upon which she cursed him, saying: ‘I hope the Pretender will come and take your pigs, and you, too.’" p.69

Cryptid: Ropen
Book: The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir
Author: John Cook
Pages: 352
Date Read: Dec 6th
Task: Set - island
How it Fits: Tasmania, an island state of Australia

Cryptid: Thunderbird
Book: The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
Author: Seth Meyerowitz
Pages: 320
Date Read: Dec 10th
Task: Plot - big storm
How it Fits: "Eighth and 15th Air Force crews headed to England or Italy would spend two to three weeks in storm-tossed Atlantic waters" p.29

Cryptid: Kongamato
Book: Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography
Author: Karl Ruhrberg
Pages: 840
Date Read: Dec 13th
Task: Cover - red
How it Fits:

Cryptid: Ahool
Book: Judy: The Life, Legend, and Tragedy of an American Icon
Author: Gerold Frank
Date Read: Dec 13th
Task: Plot - someone screams
How it Fits: "Ethel holding down the screaming child while the doctor worked on her" p.33

Cryptid: Batsquatch
Book: Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information
Author: Itamar Simonson
Date Read: Dec 15th
Task: Cover - yellow
How it Fits:

Cryptid: The Flatwoods Monster
Book: Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs: The Simple Truth About Food, Weight, and Disease
Author: David A. Kessler
Date Read: Dec 16th
Task: Title - starts with one of the letters in UFO
How it Fits: F

Cryptid: Mothman
Book: Canary In a Covid World: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our World
Author: C.H. Klotz
Date Read: Dec 17th
Task: Cover - bird
How it Fits:

✅ TOAP - December 2024 Read-a-thon

1/12: 2,245
My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech - 260 - ⭐️⭐️
Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health - 416 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944 - 176 - ⭐️⭐️
The Queen's Gambit - 257 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do - 496 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453 - 249 - ⭐️
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 391 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2/12: 2,596
Madrid: A New Biography - 480 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - 1,011 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria - 312 - ⭐️⭐️
Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors - 254 - ⭐️
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica - 311 - ⭐️⭐️
Karate Science: Dynamic Movement - 228 - ⭐️⭐️

3/12: 3,170
The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World - 340 - ⭐️⭐️
Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica - 447 - ⭐️⭐️
Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles - 292 - ⭐️⭐️
Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love - 160 - ⭐️⭐️
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - 319 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
The Mother of All Success Manuals: How to Control Your Days, Lose the Guilt, and Find Harmony Between Work and Life - 192 - ⭐️⭐️
The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing - 1,164 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4/12: 1,366
I Want to Do All the Things: Finding Balance as a Polymath, Multipotentialite & Renaissance Soul - 48 - ⭐️⭐️
How To Talk To Anyone - The Ultimate Guide On How To Engage And Talk To Anyone You Meet - 26 - ⭐️
How to Spot a Psychopath - 23 - ⭐️
How to Organize Your Life, Mind and Home: 9 Organizing Principles To Help You Simplify Your Life, Increase Efficiency And Maximize Productivity. - 38 - ⭐️
How to Open Locks Without Keys or Picks - 24 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
How to Not Give a F*ck at Christmas: A No F*cks Given Guide to Surviving the Holidays - 23 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Self Discipline in 10 Days: How to Build-Self Discipline: 25 Steps To Develop Self Control using Willpower - 46 - ⭐️⭐️
How to become a travel ninja - 37 - ⭐️
Getting Things Done and Staying Organised: Increase Productivity And Banish Procrastination - 42 - ⭐️⭐️
Find What You Love: 5 Tips to Uncover Your Passion Quickly and Easily - 32 - ⭐️⭐️
Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition - 194 - ⭐️⭐️
Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough - 257 - ⭐️⭐️
It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF - 304 - ⭐️⭐️
Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment - 272 - ⭐️⭐️

5/12: 2,117
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World - 496 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones - 440 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Richest Man in Babylon - 194 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself - 264 - ⭐️⭐️
Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy - 291 - ⭐️⭐️
Gratitude: A Daily Journal - 160 - ⭐️

6/12: 3,153
Universe or Multiverse? - 536 - ⭐️⭐️
Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Soul Feeling Bad: Daily Steps to Spiritual Growth - 399 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand - 213 - ⭐️⭐️
Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives - 320 - ⭐️⭐️
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy - 848 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir - 352 - ⭐️⭐️
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness - 485 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

7/12: 2,607
Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World - 1,877 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Salt Water - 171 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia - 404 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism - 155 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

8/12: 1,648
Burnout: A Guide to Identifying Burnout and Pathways to Recovery - 226 - ⭐️⭐️
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume - 690 - ⭐️⭐️
After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon - 400 - ⭐️⭐️
The 4-Hour Workweek - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

9/12: 984
Beneath the Underdog - 320 - ⭐️
The Great Peace: A Memoir - 289 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - 375 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

10/12: 1,855
You've Got This: 101 ways to boost your confidence, nurture your spirit and remind yourself that everything is going to be okay - 224 - ⭐️⭐️
Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor - 284 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France - 320 - ⭐️⭐️
The Book Of Tells - 400 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption - 354 - ⭐️⭐️
Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - 273 - ⭐️

11/12: 1,665
The Most Interesting Book in the World - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany - 322 - ⭐️⭐️
MLA Handbook - 400 - ⭐️
The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique - 290 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oranges: A Global History - 151 - ⭐️⭐️
The Culprit - 230 - ⭐️

12/12: 3,515
Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire - 512 - ⭐️⭐️
The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt - 397 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lonely Planet Greece - 2,115 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Do It! Speaking: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise - 219 - ⭐️⭐️
A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

13/12: 3,573
The True History of Merlin the Magician - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
Explaining Life Through Evolution - 280 - ⭐️⭐️
Death Punch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem - 304 - ⭐️⭐️
Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography - 840 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Complaint Is a Gift Workbook: 101 Activities, Exercises, and Tools to Learn from Critical Feedback and Recover Customer Loyalty - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
You Are The Brand: The 8-Step Blueprint to Showcase Your Unique Expertise and Build a Highly Profitable, Personally Fulfilling Business - 225 - ⭐️⭐️
Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks - 264 - ⭐️⭐️
Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television - 488 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Judy: The Life, Legend, and Tragedy of an American Icon - 645 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

14/12: 3,487
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II - 592 - ⭐️⭐️
Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers - 167 - ⭐️⭐️
Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and Mental Illness - 306 - ⭐️⭐️
A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road - 336 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy - 233 - ⭐️⭐️
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut - 389 - ⭐️⭐️
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year - 544 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Owner's Manual to Life: Simple Strategies to Worry Less and Enjoy Life More - 303 - ⭐️⭐️
Arabic Phrases, Sayings & Idioms: Fast Arabic to Enrich your Language Now - 93 - ⭐️
Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns - 252 - ⭐️⭐️

✅ TOAP - December 2024 Read-a-thon

15/12: 3,131
1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half - 314 - ⭐️⭐️
Anxiety Rx: A Revolutionary New Prescription for Anxiety Relief―from the Doctor Who Created It - 366 - ⭐️⭐️
Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits - 227 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
1000 Ways to Ask Why: Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking - 250 - ⭐️⭐️
A History of English Literature - 400 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners - 320 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show - 319 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World - 273 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
How Humans Judge Machines - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

16/12: 4,790
The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet - 2,193 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Endless Highway - 647 - ⭐️⭐️
Chinese Philosophy A–Z - 264 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple - 264 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs: The Simple Truth About Food, Weight, and Disease - 325 - ⭐️⭐️
I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Soldier - 191 - ⭐️⭐️
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life - 377 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Invisible Influence: The Power to Persuade Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere - 224 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire - 325 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

17/12: 5,369
Lonely Planet Australia - 2,384 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts - 204 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bangkok: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of Thailand - 352 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Canary In a Covid World: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our World - 433 - ⭐️⭐️
Japan from Anime to Zen: Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food . . . and More - 304 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity - 234 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant: Twelve Keys to Successful Living - 180 - ⭐️
The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA - 318
1001 Inventions That Changed the World - 960 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

18/12: 1,368
Approaching Disability: Critical issues and perspectives by Mallett Rebecca Runswick-Cole Katherine (2014-06-25) Paperback - 168 - ⭐️⭐️
Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD - 176 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds - 368 - ⭐️⭐️
Cuban Cocktails: 100 Classic and Modern Drinks - A Cocktail Book - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote - 400 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

19/12: 2,715
Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Crazy from the Heat - 384 - ⭐️
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy - 352 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine - 410 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests - 215 - ⭐️⭐️
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance - 257 - ⭐️⭐️
The Untold Story of Books: A Writer's History of Publishing - 264 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter - 273 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

20/12: 3,401
Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living - 368 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry - 464 - ⭐️⭐️
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II - 448 - ⭐️⭐️
The Vocabulary Builder Workbook: Simple Lessons and Activities to Teach Yourself Over 1,400 Must-Know Words - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
History of Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History - 158 - ⭐️⭐️
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe - 512 - ⭐️⭐️
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times - 585 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Yinsights: A Journey Into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga - 450 - ⭐️⭐️
The Zürau Aphorisms - 160 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

21/12: 4,406
The Billionaire and The Monk: An Inspirational Story About Finding Extraordinary Happiness - 114 - ⭐️⭐️
A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole - 261 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lonely Planet Germany, Austria & Switzerland's Best Trips - 849 - ⭐️⭐️
Imperfect Environmentalist: How to Reduce Waste and Create Change for a Better Planet - 192 - ⭐️⭐️
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything - 246 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Instant Pot Bible: More than 350 Recipes and Strategies: The Only Book You Need for Every Model of Instant Pot - 1,288 - ⭐️⭐️
Introduction to Clinical Psychology - 530 - ⭐️⭐️
If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life: The Korean Bestseller - 192 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness - 224 - ⭐️
No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
No Worries: A Guide to Releasing Anxiety and Worry Using CBT - 256 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

22/12: 3,910
Unlocking Spanish with Paul Noble: Your key to language success - 336 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life - 221 - ⭐️⭐️
Ice Cream Social: The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's - 303 - ⭐️⭐️
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture - 379 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel - 353 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism - 242 - ⭐️
The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage - 109 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina - 189 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia - 304 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track - 648 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Leading Consciously: A Pilgrimage Toward Self-Mastery - 234 - ⭐️⭐️
No Apologies: Ditch Diet Culture and Rebuild Your Relationship with Food - 352 - ⭐️⭐️

23/12: 2,420
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 341 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism - 293 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
How To Not Work Forever: Start Investing and Build a Life You Love - 304 - ⭐️⭐️
I Only Roast the Ones I Love: Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges - 308 - ⭐️
Daemons are Forever: Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium - 325 - ⭐️⭐️
American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood - 377 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Overcoming Imposter Anxiety: Move Beyond Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt to Embrace Your Worthy, Capable Self - 200 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

24/12: 1,825
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson - 310 - ⭐️⭐️
Sugar: A Bittersweet History - 538 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II - 400 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization - 290 - ⭐️⭐️
Feeling 'Blah'?: Why Life Feels Joyless and How to Recapture Its Highs - 287 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

25/12: 4,056
Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey - 434 - ⭐️⭐️
Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living - 292 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards - 350 - ⭐️⭐️
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre - 336 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Field Guide to Urban Gardening: Sort Through the Small-Space Options and Get Growing Today - 224 - ⭐️⭐️
Remembering Whitney: My Story of Life, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped - 353 - ⭐️⭐️
Jurassic Park and Philosophy: The Truth Is Terrifying - 302 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
100 Headlines That Changed the World - 320 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Prisoners of Geography, Children's Ed.: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps - 132 - ⭐️⭐️
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - 284 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Open, Honest, and Direct: A Guide to Unlocking Your Team's Potential - 240 - ⭐️⭐️
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love - 200 - ⭐️⭐️
One Day Smarter: Hilarious, Random Information to Uplift and Inspire - 303 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

WC - December 2024 - Nigeria's Capital: Abuja

✅ Total: 15/15

1. Pages - 401+
2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
480 pages

2. MC - government worker
5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️
"Florida governor Ron DeSantis" p.14

3. Author - initials in ASO ROCK
4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition, Sonia Choquette - ⭐️⭐️

4. Plot - art is important
7/12 - Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Richard E. Cytowic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Kandinsky was a synesthetic painter who coupled four senses: color, hearing, touch, and smell." p.80

5. Title - starts with letter in NIKE
2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Author - initials in ARTS AND CULTURE
1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
CT

7. Cover - impressive building
2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️


8. Author - initials in RELIGIOUS CENTRES
1/12 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
SRC

9. Title - all the letters in JABI
6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. Author - initials in URBAN GREEN SPACE
3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️

11. MPG - food
1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, Jo Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

12. MC - FN starts with letter in CAVE
1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944, Francois Eliet - ⭐️⭐️
Ernest Grimaud de Caux

13. Author - initials in CULINARY DELIGHTS
5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, Ross Douthat - ⭐️⭐️

14. Text - 'waterfall'
1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"like a bright waterfall" p.39

15. Author - initials in SURROUNDING AREA
3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️

WC - December 2024: Abuja Spell Out

✅ Total: 77/77

Nigeria
N: 6/12 - Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand, Amanda D. Lotz - ⭐️⭐️
I: 1/12 - It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944 - ⭐️⭐️
G: 3/12 - Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker - ⭐️⭐️
E: 1/12 - Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, Jo Robinson - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/12 - The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, Ross Douthat - ⭐️⭐️
I: 2/12 - Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, Bettany Hughes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 3/12 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Abuja
A: 5/12 - Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, Bill Adair - ⭐️⭐️
B: 1/12 - The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453, Vlada Stanković - ⭐️
U: 6/12 - Universe or Multiverse?, Bernard Carr - ⭐️⭐️
J: 12/12 - The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, Joyce A. Tyldesley - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 6/12 - At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness, Hana Ali - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Aso Rock
A: 8/12 - After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon, Greg Eghigian - ⭐️⭐️
S: 1/12 - The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do, Colin Tudge - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 6/12 - The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Bret W. Davis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/12 - The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 11/12 - Oranges: A Global History, Clarissa Hyman - ⭐️⭐️
C: 1/12 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 2/12 - Karate Science: Dynamic Movement, J.D. Swanson - ⭐️⭐️

Monolith
M: 2/12 - Madrid: A New Biography, Luke Stegemann - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 14/12 - A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road, James Oseland - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 11/12 - The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany, Gwen Strauss - ⭐️⭐️
O: 14/12 - The Owner's Manual to Life: Simple Strategies to Worry Less and Enjoy Life More, Michael Zajaczkowski - ⭐️⭐️
L: 6/12 - The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir, John Cook - ⭐️⭐️
I: 4/12 - It Starts with the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF, Rebecca Fett - ⭐️⭐️
T: 2/12 - Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, Zora Neale Hurston - ⭐️⭐️
H: 6/12 - Haunted: Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives, E. Jay Gilbert - ⭐️⭐️

Nike
N: 12/12 - Do It! Speaking: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise, David Newman - ⭐️⭐️
I: 15/12 - Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information, Itamar Simonson - ⭐️⭐️
K: 7/12 - Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism, Elizabeth Bartmess - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 4/12 - Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough, Mattie James - ⭐️⭐️

Pyramid
P: 8/12 - Burnout: A Guide to Identifying Burnout and Pathways to Recovery, Gordon Parker - ⭐️⭐️
Y: 4/12 - Your 3 Best Super Powers: Meditation, Imagination & Intuition, Sonia Choquette - ⭐️⭐️
R: 5/12 - The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 10/12 - Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption, Jean-Philippe Aumasson - ⭐️⭐️
M: 3/12 - The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World, Steven Bingen - ⭐️⭐️
I: 16/12 - I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Soldier, Howard E. Wasdin - ⭐️⭐️
D: 3/12 - Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love, Brit Barron - ⭐️⭐️

Mosque
M: 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 - ⭐️⭐️
O: 19/12 - Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation, Jim O’Heir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 2/12 - Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria, Max Siollun - ⭐️⭐️
Q: 1/12 - The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 19/12 - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance - ⭐️⭐️
E: 7/12 - Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World, Judika Illes - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jabi
J: 11/12 - The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique, Jeffrey Morgenthaler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 12/12 - A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again, Emma Howarth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 3/12 - Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert George Reisner - ⭐️⭐️
I: 16/12 - Invisible Influence: The Power to Persuade Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere, Kevin Hogan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lake
L: 10/12 - The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France, Seth Meyerowitz - ⭐️⭐️
A: 13/12 - The True History of Merlin the Magician, Anne Lawrence-Mathers - ⭐️⭐️
K: 14/12 - China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy, Kay Ann Johnson - ⭐️⭐️
E: 10/12 - Emperors of Rome: The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor, David Stone Potter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Suya
S: 2/12 - Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors, Amber Share - ⭐️
U: 19/12 - The Untold Story of Books: A Writer's History of Publishing, Michael Castleman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y: 10/12 - You've Got This: 101 ways to boost your confidence, nurture your spirit and remind yourself that everything is going to be okay, Domonique Bertolucci - ⭐️⭐️
A: 13/12 - Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography, Karl Ruhrberg - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jollof
J: 13/12 - Death Punch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem, Jeremy Spencer - ⭐️⭐️
O: 19/12 - Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests, Diana Beresford-Kroeger - ⭐️⭐️
L: 12/12 - Lonely Planet Greece, Simon Richmond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 14/12 - Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, Martin Lindstrom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 21/12 - Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything, Kelly Weill - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 4/12 - Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment, Stephen Flavall - ⭐️⭐️

Gurara
G: 5/12 - Gratitude: A Daily Journal, Jack Canfield - ⭐️
U: 20/12 - Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living, Mo Gawdat - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 7/12 - Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Richard E. Cytowic - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 13/12 - A Complaint Is a Gift Workbook: 101 Activities, Exercises, and Tools to Learn from Critical Feedback and Recover Customer Loyalty, Janelle Barlow - ⭐️⭐️
R: 14/12 - Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut, Mike Mullane - ⭐️⭐️
A: 14/12 - Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II, Abbott Kahler - ⭐️⭐️

Falls
F: 8/12 - The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 14/12 - Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, Allie Esiri - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 15/12 - The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits, Les Standiford - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 21/12 - A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole, Marian Schembari - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
S: 3/12 - Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, Kathleen Turner - ⭐️⭐️

Zuma
Z: 20/12 - The Zürau Aphorisms, Franz Kafka - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
U: 22/12 - Unlocking Spanish with Paul Noble: Your key to language success, Paul Noble - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
M: 11/12 - The Culprit, Martin Sasek - ⭐️
A: 14/12 - Arabic Phrases, Sayings & Idioms: Fast Arabic to Enrich your Language Now, Abdul Arabic - ⭐️