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BOOK: ➤ Heartbreak Hotel
AUTHOR: Jonathan Kellerman
DATE READ: 08/24/25
PAGES/RATING: 399 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🐌 2. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in SNAIL.
HOW IT FITS:
- Alex
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The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.
Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor were married for 18 years until Allwine's death in 2009.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🐭 1. Read a book where someone dies.
🐭 2. Read a book published in 2009.
🐭 3. Read a book with a 1 and an 8 in the page count.
🐭 4. Read a book with some type of animal on the cover.
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BOOK: ➤ Over Your Dead Body
AUTHOR: Dan Wells
DATE READ: 08/25/25
PAGES/RATING: 304 |
TASK: 📔 🐭 1. Read a book where someone dies.
HOW IT FITS:
Multiple people killed/died in this book
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Extreme Ironing is considered a ‘danger sport’ in which people take ironing boards to various, often remote, locations to iron clothes and take a picture.
Some of the locations have included cliff tops, underwater, in the middle of a motorway, and also while skiing and parachuting.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🧺 1. Read a book where the MC has a dangerous career/hobby.
🧺 2. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in EXTREME.
🧺 3. Read a book set at least partially in a remote location.
🧺 4. Read a book where a character irons or does other household chores.
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BOOK: ➤ The Whispers
AUTHOR: Ashley Audrain
DATE READ: 08/29/25
PAGES/RATING: 336 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 🧺 4. Read a book where a character irons or does other household chores.
HOW IT FITS:
A lot of laundry, cooking, etc, from multiple characters
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There's a world record for the most world record titles.
It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🥇 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
🥇 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
🥇 4. Read a book of your choice.
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BOOK: ➤ Spiral of Need (Mercury Pack)
AUTHOR: Suzanne Wright
DATE READ: 09/01/25
PAGES/RATING: 322 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
HOW IT FITS:
19,894 ratings1,214 reviews
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Bog Snorkelling takes place in a 55-metre-long water-filled trench carved out of a peat bog (comprised of dead plant material).
Competitors wear snorkels and flippers and cannot use traditional swimming techniques, but rather must rely solely on flipper power to get across and back. Kirsty Johnson set the record back in 2014 with a time of 1 minute and 22.56 seconds.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🤿 1. Read a book published in 2014.
🤿 2. Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in SNORKELLING.
🤿 3. Read a book with some type of plant material on the cover.
🤿 4. Read a book that does not follow a "traditional" style. {dual-timelines, epistolary, etc.}
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BOOK: ➤ Tea with Jam & Dread
AUTHOR: Vicki Delaney
DATE READ: 09/02/25
PAGES/RATING: 296 | ★★★☆☆
TASK: 📔 🤿 3. Read a book with some type of plant material on the cover.
There is a vase with plant on cover
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About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine.
That's approximately 2.6 pounds, if you're wondering how much "fruit" you get when you uncork your favorite red.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🍇 1. Read a book with less than 700 reviews on Goodreads.
🍇 2. Read a book with a red or purple cover. {Your discretion.}
🍇 3. Read a book with a 2 and a 6 in the publication date.
🍇 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in UNCORK.
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BOOK: ➤ Way of the Wolf
AUTHOR: Lindsay Buroker
DATE READ: 09/04/24
PAGES/RATING: 228 | ★★★★☆
TASK: 📔 🍇 1. Read a book with less than 700 reviews on Goodreads.
HOW IT FITS:
196 reviews
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M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.
Forrest Mars (son of the Mars Company founder) first spotted the British confection Smarties during the Spanish Civil War and noticed the candy shell prevented the chocolate from melting. He teamed up with Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey Chocolate's president) and the company later trademarked the "Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand" slogan.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🔴 1. Read a book with an alliterative title.
🔴 2. Read a book with at least two men on the cover.
🔴 3. Read a book tagged SPACE any number of times.
🔴 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in HERSHEY.
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BOOK: ➤ Alien: Out of the Shadows
AUTHOR: Tim Lebbon
DATE READ: 09/10/25
PAGES/RATING: 352 |
TASK: 📔 🔴 3. Read a book tagged SPACE any number of times.
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Only one NFL team has a plant for a logo.
The New Orleans Saints' fleur-de-lis is actually a stylized lily historically associated with the French monarchy. It's also the state symbol of Louisiana and appears on the Quebec flag.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
⚜️ 1. Read a book where a character plays or watches football.
⚜️ 2. Read a book set in Louisiana, France, or Canada.
⚜️ 3. Read a book with a logo or a flag on the cover.
⚜️ 4. Read a book with all the letters of MONARCHY in the title.
Snail Racing is essentially a race between ordinary garden snails, with snail racing events taking place around the world.
The snails tend to race on a 13 - 14 inch circular track and start in the center with the winning snail being the first to reach the perimeter. Racing numbers or stickers are often put on the shells in order to distinguish each competitor.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
🐌 1. Read a book with the word CRAWL in the text.
🐌 2. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in SNAIL.
🐌 3. Read a book where the author's last initial is found in GARDEN.
🐌 4. Read a book where the publisher's name starts with a letter in SHELL.